The 52-year-old died in hospital two weeks after a car ploughed into a packed market in Magdeburg, prosecutors said. At least 299 people were injured in the attack on 20 December, according to the latest figures from the interior ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.

Prosecutors say the death toll in the attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last month has risen to six as a woman succumbed to her injuries.

A sixth person has died following the car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg. A 52-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Naumburg told dpa on Monday.

A 52-year-old woman has died in hospital two weeks after she was injured when an SUV rammed a crowd at a packed Christmas market in the German town of Magdeburg on December 20

A tragic attack at Magdeburg's Christmas market has claimed six lives, as a 52-year-old woman's death brings renewed grief to Germany. A 50-year-old Saudi Arabian psychiatrist, with ties to far-right ideology,

The suspect in the car-ramming incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg had appeared in seven investigative proceedings in the two years prior to the attack, Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

A victim who was critically injured in the attack has succumbed to her injuries, prosecutors have said.

German prosecutors are commissioning a detailed mental evaluation of the suspected attacker behind a vehicle rampage through the crowded Magdeburg Christmas market that left five dead and more than 230 injured.