Germany: Afghan stabs woman to death and hides her body under the cot

Photos: The fugitive suspect Abdul Mohammad Tukhi

In the evening hours of Tuesday, November 17, 2020, family members of a 34-year-old woman from Munich reported a missing person to the police. According to the report, her 41-year-old husband had informed the family members by telephone on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, that both would go shopping around lunchtime. Both had disappeared since then and could not be reached by phone.A search of the flats as well as extensive search measures and initial investigations remained without result.

When blood applications were found in the flat during another flat search on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, the entire flat was examined for traces of blood on Thursday, November 19, 2020. During this examination, numerous other traces of blood could be detected, among other things by using chemical procedures, which indicated that an act of violence had taken place.

On Friday, November 20, 2020, further investigations on suspicion of a homicide were taken over by the homicide squad of the Munich police headquarters.At the request of the Homicide Department of the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office I, the responsible investigating judge issued an arrest warrant for manslaughter against the fugitive 41-year-old Afghan husband on Friday, November 20, 2020.

In the afternoon of Friday, November 20, 2020, a thorough search of the flat led to the discovery of the body of the 34-year-old woman from Munich hidden under a cot. The subsequent autopsy at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich confirmed that the 34-year-old was killed by stabs in her upper body.

Extensive search measures for the fugitive suspect are ongoing by search teams of the Police Munich.Persons who can provide relevant information, in particular on the whereabouts of the suspect and the person of the witness, are requested to contact the Munich Police Headquarters, Department 11 by calling 089/2910-0, or any other police station.

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