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Two schoolgirls have confessed to stabbing to death a 12-year-old girl in Germany, police said Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the country.
The victim, known only as Luise, went missing on Saturday afternoon after leaving a friend’s house near the town of Freudenberg, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Luise’s body was found the following day in a wooded area not far from her home.
“The child died as a result of numerous knife wounds and the resulting loss of blood,” Koblenz prosecutor Mario Mannweiler told a press conference, adding that there was “no indication of a sexual offence”.
Two girls, aged 12 and 13, had confessed to the murder, added Florian Locker, head of Koblenz police’s homicide department.
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The two girls “made statements about the matter and in the end admitted the crime”, Locker said.
The girls and Luise knew each other, Mannweiler added
