Posted: Dec 10, 2015 1:08 pm
Police have arrested five relatives of a woman found beaten and choked to death in what appears to have been a violent "exorcism" in Frankfurt on Saturday.
The bruised body of a 41-year-old woman was found by staff at Frankfurt's InterContinental Hotel on Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the Frankfurt prosecutor's office told The Local.
Police arrested five family members of the woman in connection with her death, which officials suspect occurred during an attempted exorcism.
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The five are reportedly from South Korea and arrived in Hesse six weeks prior.
The suspects are reported to have tied the woman to the bed and beaten her in the stomach and chest for several hours, prosecutors told DPA on Wednesday.
To stifle her screams, they stuffed a towel into her mouth, causing the woman to eventually suffocate.
The suspects gave information leading to the discovery of the second woman, who was suffering from hypothermia and severe dehydration.
Police found her in a house rented by the suspects in Sulzbach, Hesse.
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