15-year-old girl missing in Lower Saxony: police find corpse of woman

Created: 06/22/2022, 04:45 am

By: Nadja Zinsmeister

The police found a young woman's body while searching for a 15-year-old girl in a park in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

© Rudolf Karliczek/dpa

In Lower Saxony, the police are looking for a 15-year-old girl.

A woman's body was discovered.

A violent crime is not excluded.

Salzgitter - On Tuesday (June 21) the police found the body of a young woman in a park while searching for a 15-year-old girl in the town of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony.

The teenager has been missing since Sunday evening.

It was initially unclear whether the find was the 15-year-old.

According to a police spokesman, the cause of death was not yet clear.

"We are investigating in all directions," he said on Tuesday.

The spokesman did not rule out a violent crime.

Now the identity of the found woman must be determined.

Salzgitter in Lower Saxony: the police find a woman's body in search of a 15-year-old

Around 50 officers had previously searched for traces until the afternoon and also used a drone.

In the morning, the police published a description of the girl and intensified the search in Salzgitter in the Fredenberg district.

Several streets were blocked.

The Salzgitter police received support in the search from the central police department and the service dog squadron, according to a message.

In Lower Saxony, two missing persons are shaking the country, after a five-year-old boy has also been wanted in Oldenburg since Friday.

According to the description, the missing person is a red-haired schoolgirl who was last seen in jeans and sneakers.

In such cases, relatives are offered pastoral care.