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.

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.