Germany: 14-Year-Old Girl Stabbed to Death by Asylum Seeker From Africa

 

Ulm, Germany – A 14-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an asylum seeker from Eritrea on Monday.

A 13-year-old child was also injured in the attack that happened while the girls were on their way to school early in the morning.

According to German police, “the attacker had come from a neighboring accommodation for asylum seekers and had fled there again after the crime. When the police searched it with special forces, they found three residents there, all asylum seekers from Eritrea.”

“According to the investigators’ findings so far, the girls were probably attacked with a knife. The girls were on their way to school at the time. The 14-year-old had to be revived at the scene after the attack before being taken to the hospital, where she died despite all medical efforts. The 13-year-old, also a German national, had to be treated in a clinic with serious but not life-threatening injuries.” German police said in a press release.

 

Reuters reported:

A 14-year-old girl has died after she and another teenage girl were attacked by an unidentified man on their way to school in southwestern Germany on Monday, local broadcaster SWR reported, citing police.

A police spokesperson had earlier confirmed a media report that two girls had been injured in an attack in Illerkirchberg, a town of around 5,000 people west of Munich.

After arriving at the scene and tending to the two severely injured girls, police found that a suspect had fled into a neighbouring building, Wolfgang Juergens, spokesperson for police in the German city of Ulm, told SWR earlier on Monday.

SWR later reported that the police had taken the suspect as well as two residents of the building into custody.