North Rhine-Westphalia
Three bodies found in Tönisvorst
Police and rescue workers found three bodies in a house in Tönisvorst on the Lower Rhine. photo
© David Young/dpa
The residents were worried: they hadn’t seen three neighbors for a long time. The alarmed rescue workers make a terrible discovery – and the investigators are faced with many unanswered questions.
The discovery of three bodies in a house in Tönisvorst on the Lower Rhine is a mystery to the investigators. Police and prosecutors suspect that the three dead could be a 95-year-old resident, her 63-year-old daughter and her 69-year-old partner.
The identity, like the cause of death, has not yet been finally clarified, said a police spokesman. Investigators left open whether there was any evidence of a crime. The police and prosecutors want to publish more information this Wednesday.
According to the investigators, neighbors had informed the public order office on Monday morning because they had not seen the three residents of the house for several days and were worried. The emergency services then found the bodies. They are now to be autopsied.
“Through the tilted window, a smell of decomposition could already be perceived, a corpse could be seen from the outside through a window,” said a spokesman for the volunteer fire brigade of the “Rheinische Post”.
The site is a semi-detached house in a residential area in the St. Tönis district. In the morning, three red seals on the front door reminded of the police operation.