Mystery after woman and young girl found dead metres apart on remote forest path

The bodies of a woman and young girl have been found just metres apart in a German forest.

A jogger stumbled across the young woman’s body, said to be between 25 and 35 years old, on a remote forest path in Dorsten, north west Germany early on Sunday morning.

Local police soon arrived to find the woman had seemingly been beaten to death, Bild newspaper reports.

Not long after they found the dead body of a young girl, reportedly between two and three years old, lying in a bush.

A spokeswoman for the Recklinghausen police force said ‘there were indications of violence’ in relation to the bodies and so have begun a murder investigation.

Officers have closed off the path, named Tüshausweg, which leads to a local cemetery.

The police say they are not providing further details for investigative reasons.

The mysterious deaths follow a violent attempted robbery on the same path three days earlier.

A 40-year-old mother and her one-year-old child were walking along Tüshausweg when a couple attacked them after getting out of a black BMW X6.

The two perpetrators pushed the mother to the ground and attempted to grab her handbag.

After that failed they then snatched the 40-year-old of her earrings before the pair drove away in their BMW.

The two suspects in this attack, according to the police, are a man and a woman around 50 years old.

The male perpetrator was wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt, while the woman was wearing a blue dress and a red, white, and yellow hijab.

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