Current Victim of homicide is 75-year-old local resident

SDA

9.8.2024 - 00:27

Police cordoned off the area around the scene of a homicide in the Breite district this afternoon. (archive picture)
Police cordoned off the area around the scene of a homicide in the Breite district this afternoon. (archive picture)
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According to the public prosecutor's office, the victim of a homicide in Basel on Thursday is a 75-year-old resident. She was found dead in the afternoon in the stairwell of an apartment building in the Breite district.

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The unknown perpetrators initially remained on the run after the incident, as the public prosecutor's office of the canton of Basel-Stadt announced on Friday night. How the woman was killed was also unclear for the time being.

A man had previously been reported to the police by a local resident who had been behaving suspiciously in the property. The police then cordoned off the area around the crime scene in the afternoon. The police set up a special task force to determine the exact course of events and the identity of the perpetrators. They were looking for witnesses.