A woman and her daughter have died from injuries they sustained when an Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd in Munich.

A spokesman from the German police confirmed the pair were the first fatalities from the incident.

It comes as German federal prosecutors said there were suspicions that a car ramming attack in Munich was religiously motivated and intended to undermine Germany’s democratic order.

A view of the scene after a car plowed into a crowd in the southern German city of MunichGetty

Police secures the area after a car drove into a crowd in Munich, GermanyReuters