Woman found dead in Hamburg apartment; 27-year-old man arrested

A 27-year-old man led police to a dead woman in an apartment in Lokstedt, a district of Hamburg, on Tuesday afternoon.

He had gone to a nearby police station at about 3:30 p.m.

to report an assault, then told officers there was a dead person in the apartment.

Police found the woman with fatal injuries in a multi-storey apartment building on Grandweg.

Officers provisionally arrested the man on suspicion of a killing.

The woman’s identity and her relationship to the man have not been made public.

The homicide squad and prosecutors are investigating; police have not yet given information about the circumstances.

The investigation will establish what happened and the man’s role.