Arrest and victim

German authorities have detained a man suspected of fatally stabbing a 31-year-old British woman early on Sunday morning in the southern town of Rosenheim. The woman was attacked at the city's train station and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died from serious injuries, according to Rosenheim police.

Federal police officers, called to the scene, detained the suspect immediately after the stabbing. Police identified him as a 27-year-old German man from the nearby county of Fürstenfeldbruck.

In line with German privacy rules, police did not release the names of the victim or the suspect. They said they were still investigating the circumstances and motive behind the crime, and asked any witnesses to come forward, specifically asking whether anyone had witnessed "an argument or a physical altercation" in the early hours of Saturday night into Sunday at the train station.