Woman's body with stab wounds found in Vöcklabruck: murder investigation underway
Children discovered a dead 53-year-old woman on Tuesday near the Ager riverbank in Dürnau. The Wels public prosecutor's office is investigating on suspicion of murder; no suspect has been arrested so far.
Children find body on Ager riverbank – public prosecutor's office investigates on suspicion of murder
According to Google News AT — Crime (de), children playing discovered a lifeless woman on Tuesday in the Vöcklabruck district of Dürnau near the Ager riverbank. The body had multiple stab wounds.
The preliminary autopsy results from Thursday confirmed suspicion of foul play, according to Christoph Weber, spokesman for the Wels public prosecutor's office. The authority is now investigating on suspicion of murder. The deceased is a 53-year-old woman from Laakirchen in the Gmunden district.
Weber declined to comment on reports from the Kronen Zeitung claiming that the woman had been missing from a psychiatric clinic for several days.
The public prosecutor's office is withholding further details on grounds of "investigative expediency" – including background information and possible suspects. No one has been arrested so far. However, work is proceeding at full pace "to find the perpetrator or perpetrators," according to Weber. (APA)
Source: Google News AT — Crime (de)