Overview
- Police in Hagen and the Siegen prosecutor’s office said the severed hands belong to a 32-year-old Eritrean woman registered with an asylum accommodation in Bonn.
- The woman’s three-month-old child was found unharmed on Sunday in a stroller outside a monastery in Waldsolms and is now in official care.
- Officers say a criminal cause cannot be ruled out and a homicide commission has been established to lead the investigation.
- The A45 near Olpe-Süd was closed toward Gießen overnight until about 7 a.m. Monday to search the area around the discovery site.
- Authorities report that the search for the woman has so far been unsuccessful and are seeking witnesses from the stretch between the Großmicke and Unterm Hipperich rest areas.