Overview

• Neighbors alerted emergency services to a Blissestraße apartment around midday Wednesday, where a woman was found dead and could not be revived.
• Police say the circumstances of the discovery indicate a criminal act, and the homicide unit and public prosecutor have taken over the case.
• Forensic technicians are securing evidence at the scene, an autopsy has been ordered, and the exact cause of death remains unclear.
• The victim’s identity and age are still unknown because no identification documents were found in the apartment, and it is not confirmed she was the tenant.
• In a separate development Thursday, Hamburg authorities recovered a man’s body from the Elbe near Rissen that could be a recently missing swimmer, while Berlin police renewed a public appeal to identify a man who died by suicide at Hauptbahnhof on July 17.