A German citizen was killed in an armed attack in Guatemala City. The perpetrators first robbed them and then shot them through the open car window.
Guatemala City – A German woman has been killed in Guatemala. She was killed in an armed attack, said the spokesman for the Guatemala City traffic police, Amilcar Montejo, on YouTube.
The victim is a German citizen around the age of 60. She was shot dead in a car after a tweet from the volunteer fire brigade. Further details were initially not given. The attorney general of the Central American country announced that the prosecutor for femicides had taken over the investigation.
The television channel Canal Antigua reported that the woman who was killed had been teaching at the German School in Guatemala for three years – as had her husband. This was not injured in the incident. Citing him, it was said that two dark-clad people on a motorcycle took advantage of the woman’s window being open. They robbed her and then shot her. In the district of the Guatemalan capital, La Reformita, there has recently been a series of robberies by armed men on motorcycles, according to a report in the newspaper “Prensa Libre”. dpa
