German police have arrested a 27-year-old asylum seeker over an attack on two schoolgirls which left one dead and another seriously injured .
Detectives say the teenagers – aged 13 and 14 – were on their way to school on Monday morning in the southern village of Illerkirchberg when the suspect came out of a house used to accommodate asylum seekers and attacked them with a knife.
The 14-year-old girl later died from her injuries.
Police who searched the building found the man – who is from Eritrea – with a knife which they say may have been used in the attack.
He is under police guard in hospital where he’s being treated for an unspecified injury.
In a statement, police asked the public not to use the incident to justify a general suspicion of foreigners or asylum seekers.