Police have arrested five relatives of a woman found beaten and choked to death in what appears to have been a violent "exorcism" in Frankfurt on Saturday.
A police murder squad was called to a parked car in a town in western Germany this week after blood was reportedly seen dripping from it. A body was found in the vehicle, but the driver was just doing his job.
A graveyard in Cologne cremated a woman who was supposed to be buried after it mixed up two bodies, city authorities admitted on Wednesday. The family of the deceased went to the police after the woman's coffin disappeared.