Homicide Woman allegedly killed husband in Basel - Arrested in Zurich

Early Monday morning, police found a lifeless male person in a property on the Marktplatz in Basel. The public prosecutor's office is assuming a homicide. The 48-year-old wife was arrested.

The police were called out shortly after four o'clock on the basis of a voluntary report, the Basel-Stadt public prosecutor's office announced on Monday afternoon.

According to investigations by the criminal investigation department, a woman contacted the Zurich city police on Monday night and stated that she had killed her husband in Basel on Sunday.

The deceased was a 56-year-old Swiss national and the arrested woman was a 48-year-old Russian citizen.

SDA