Overview
- Police and prosecutors identified the victim as a 32-year-old registered with her three-month-old in an asylum shelter in Bonn, but she remains missing.
- The infant was found on Sunday outside a monastery in Waldsolms about 110 kilometers from the highway site and is now in official custody.
- Mordkommission Hagen is leading the case and is appealing for witnesses who noticed anything suspicious on the A45 between Kreuz Olpe-Süd and Freudenberg.
- According to dpa security sources, police are searching for the child's father, while a spokesperson says investigations are open with no concrete suspicion.
- A trauma specialist says survival after both hands are severed is unlikely without immediate tourniquet use and rapid medical care, though rare survival is possible.