The bodies of a lady and young girl have been found just metres apart in a German forest.
A jogger stumbled across the young woman’s body, said to be between 25 and 35 years old, on a distant forest path in Dorsten, north west Germany early on Sunday morning.
Local police soon arrived to seek out the lady had seemingly been beaten to death, Bild newspaper reports.
Not long after they found the dead body of a young girl, reportedly between two and three years old, lying in a bush.
A spokeswoman for the Recklinghausen police force said ‘there have been indications of violence’ in relation to the bodies and so have begun a murder investigation.
Officers have closed off the trail, named Tüshausweg, which ends up in a neighborhood cemetery.
The police say they aren’t providing further details for investigative reasons.
The mysterious deaths follow a violent attempted robbery on the identical path three days earlier.
A 40-year-old mother and her one-year-old child were walking along Tüshausweg when a pair attacked them after getting out of a black BMW X6.
The 2 perpetrators pushed the mother to the bottom and attempted to grab her handbag.
After that failed they then snatched the 40-year-old of her earrings before the pair drove away of their BMW.
The 2 suspects on this attack, in response to the police, are a person and a lady around 50 years old.
The male perpetrator was wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt, while the lady was wearing a blue dress and a red, white, and yellow hijab.
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