Fulda: The child’s body found is a missing two-year-old

On Tuesday afternoon, divers from the German Life-Saving Society finally found a child’s body in a canal. Now the police have announced that it is the missing two-year-old. The investigation into the cause of death continued.

Little Timnit is said to have left her parents’ apartment unnoticed, but the exact circumstances are still unclear. Winter temperatures prevailed in Fulda on Tuesday night and snow in the morning.

How the girl got to the canal is unclear. The police cordoned off the area around the site for further investigations. The investigators are also investigating how the girl was able to disappear from the apartment. Details on this and the girl’s family background were initially not disclosed.