A MUM and her child have tragically died from serious injuries after a suspected Islamist terrorist rammed his Mini Cooper into a crowd in Munich.
The woman, 37, and her two-year-old daughter were among the 39 injured in the “shocking attack” said to be carried out by a rejected Afghan asylum seeker.
The two-year-old girl was among the 36 injured
Footage appears to show the driver being arrested
XThe apparent moment cops overpower the man allegedly driving the Mini[/caption]
XThe car ploughed into a group of people in the city[/caption]
The Mini Cooper is said to have “sped up” and ploughed into the back of around 1,500 Verdi demonstrators – a Berlin-based German trade union – on Seidlstrasse in Munich on Thursday.
The suspected attack came just hours before the Munich Security Conference that started on Friday, with US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arriving at the summit to speak.
Police said the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who, the region’s interior minister added, was known to cops in relation to drug and theft incidents.
News website Spiegel says the suspect is a Kabul-born man named Farhad N.
He is said to have posted Islamist content on social media before the heinous incident.
The suspected attack is thought not to be connected with the Munich Security Conference.
Farhad N arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker in December 2016 and had his asylum application rejected.
Unconfirmed reports from eyewitnesses in the horror incident claim there were two men involved in the crowd plough, with one of them shot by police and carried away, according to BR24.
Munich cops have repeated that the driver was arrested but said they’re unable to confirm reports that another person was involved.
Emotional pictures show shoes, umbrellas and bags discarded on the floor after victims presumably ran for their lives.
Another harrowing image shows a collapsed pram on the ground.
One eyewitness on the scene said the Mini hit a woman and child, explaining that they were “apparently lying under the car”.
A demonstrator told Bayerischer Rundfunk: “I was in the demonstration and saw that a man was lying under the car.
“Then I tried to open the door, but it was locked.”
They claimed police shot at the car window.
The front of the Mini was completely destroyed – suggesting the driver was travelling at speed before ploughing into demonstrators.
APA pram captured laying on the floor at the scene[/caption]
APEmergency services attend the scene of an accident[/caption]
APEmotional pictures show shoes, umbrellas and bags discarded on the floor[/caption]
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