Jordanian authorities on Tuesday arrested an 18-year-old in connection with the murder of a German woman nearly one month ago, Petra news agency reported. The young man was turned in to police by his three brothers after he told them he killed a woman in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba in mid-September, the news agency said, quoting police officials.
The unidentified teen told police he had gone to Aqaba from his home in the north Jordan district of Irbid for unspecified reasons and squatted in an empty apartment.
At around midnight of September 13 he broke into the woman's apartment in Aqaba, after seeing from a window that she was fast asleep, with the intention of robbing her. However, as he left the flat with the cash, the woman woke up and started yelling, prompting him to stab her several times with a blunt object causing her death, the news agency said.
On September 25, the German embassy in Amman confirmed to AFP the death of the 42-year-old woman, who rented an apartment in the Red Sea port city and worked as a teacher in Irbid. But at the time press attaché Andreas Fiedler said he could not confirm a newspaper report that the woman had been murdered. (Albawaba.com)
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