The 52-year-old died in hospital two weeks after the car ploughed into the 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 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