39 people were injured in the car-ramming attack, which targetted a demonstration by the labour union Ver.di in Munich on Thursday.
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00:00A two-year-old girl and her mother have died two days after they were injured in the car
00:06ramming attack on a union protest in the German city of Munich.
00:10On Thursday, a 24-year-old Afghan national was immediately arrested after driving a car
00:15into a crowd of people.
00:18Authorities said at the time that 39 people were injured, two of which were in critical
00:22condition.
00:23Prosecutors say the Afghan man appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but
00:27no evidence pointed towards his involvement with any radical networks.
00:32It was the fifth in a string of attacks involving immigrants over the past nine months in Germany.
00:37It also came just over a week before the country holds its federal elections, with immigration
00:42being one of the forefront issues.
00:45Immigration debates have paved the way for Germany's far right to make significant gains
00:48politically.
00:49The Alternative for Germany party, which promises to crack down on immigration, is currently
00:54projected to win around 20 percent of next week's vote.