BERLIN (AP) — The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany was found with life-threatening wounds on Tuesday. Investigators said there was no evidence of a political motive and that they suspected a family connection to the attack.

Iris Stalzer was elected mayor of Herdecke on Sept. 28. She is a member of the center-left Social Democrats, the junior party in Germany’s conservative-led national government.

Stalzer was found at her home with life-threatening wounds shortly before 1 p.m., police and prosecutors said. The 57-year-old was taken to a hospital by helicopter.

They didn’t comment on the nature of the wounds, but the leader of the Social Democrats’ parliamentary group in Berlin, Matthias Miersch, told reporters Tuesday afternoon that “we heard a few minutes ago that newly

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