Iris Stalzer was found stabbed in her home shortly after noon local time. Her 17-year-old daughter had called an emergency number and told a dispatcher that her mother was stabbed outside in an alleged armed robbery, according to The Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times.

T he newly elected mayor of a southwestern German town, Herdecke, has been left fighting for her life after being brutally attacked and stabbed, with 13 stab wounds to her stomach and back on Tuesday (October 7).

Iris Stalzer, 57, was found at home with multiple stab wounds at her home in Herdecke in western Germany on Tuesday. Her life is no longer in danger. View on euronews