Jihadist motivation in Munich attack, prosecutors say

The Afghan suspect admits driving into a crowd, injuring 36 people including a two-year-old, police say.

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Munich public prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann told reporters that the suspect had said "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) in Arabic when he was detained and she suggested he "may have had an Islamist motivation".

A two-year-old girl is among two people who were critically injured in the attack near Munich central station on Thursday. She is in intensive care.

Another eight people were seriously hurt. Updating details of the casualties, police said 32 were male and four were female.

Thursday's car-ramming in the heart of Munich came 10 days before Germans go the polls in federal elections overshadowed by a series of earlier attacks carried out by immigrants. Two of the alleged attackers had come from Afghanistan.

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