Emergency services stand next to a rescue helicopter in Herdecke, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, after the newly elected mayor of Herdecke, Iris Stalzer, has been found critically injured in her apartment. (AP)

A freshly elected mayor was found injured in western Germany with multiple stab wounds and her life is in danger, a security source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Bild newspaper reported that Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who is due to take office in November after being elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, had been found by her son.

A 57-year-old mother of two teenagers, Stalzer is a labour lawyer who has worked for many years in the local politics of Herdecke, an ancient town of some 20,000.

“We have received news of a terrible deed in Herdecke,” conservative

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