Pregnant woman stabbed to death in Lueneburg

A pregnant woman was stabbed to death in an apartment building in Lüneburg.

The partner discovered the 36-year-old lifeless in the apartment on Friday and notified the neighbors, who immediately alerted the police.

The woman, a Tunisian citizen, suffered the stab wounds, according to investigations, in the morning hours in the apartment where she died.

Lüneburg - The possible instrument, a knife, was secured by the officers in the apartment.

The investigators currently assumed a relationship crime and a social connection between the victim and the perpetrator, according to the police.

The investigators did not want to disclose any further information.

dpa