Horrible find in Cologne
Mother and child discovered dead in water – police arrest ex-boyfriend
Police officers are looking for traces on the banks of the Rhine in the Niehl district of Cologne
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Shortly after each other, the corpses of a woman and that of her child were discovered in a Cologne port and in the Rhine. The police assume a homicide and arrested the ex-boyfriend of the dead.
The bodies of a woman and her child were discovered in a Cologne port and in the Rhine in quick succession. On Monday, officers from the Cologne water police pulled the dead woman out of the Rhine at Niehler Hafen.
Seafarers in the port had previously notified the officials. Initial findings suggest that the injuries to her body indicated a violent crime. Her four-year-old son was missing and was searched for with divers, among other things.
Cologne: child’s body pulled from the Rhine
His body was also pulled out of the water on Tuesday. As the police announced, strollers had discovered the lifeless child’s body on the banks of the Rhine on Tuesday morning near Cologne-Worringen and pulled him ashore. The body is to be autopsied during the day.
The dead woman is a 24-year-old from Cologne. Officials arrested her ex-boyfriend, who was also 24. He is urgently suspect. The homicide commission assumes a homicide. Further details were initially not known.
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Source: Police Cologne