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The mayor of a town in western Germany is in a life-threatening condition after she was stabbed in an “abhorrent attack” just days after her election, police said.

Iris Stalzer, 57, was found by her son with serious injuries and several stab wounds in her apartment in Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to German media.

A major police operation has now begun in Herdecke, the town of 23,000 people that Ms Stalzer was due to lead as mayor from 1 November. She was elected mayor on 28 September, as a member of the centre-left Social Democrats, the junior party in Germany’s conservative-led national government.

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