A 35-year-old Syrian woman died from severe injuries sustained in a knife attack on Saturday evening in the Remberg district of Hagen. Her 41-year-old Syrian partner is the suspect in this femicide. Witnesses alerted police and emergency services around 10:30 PM, finding the mother of five lying between two parked cars. She was transported to a hospital but succumbed to her injuries shortly after. The suspect reportedly fled on foot but was apprehended by police at a bus stop on Feithstraße, where a potential murder weapon was found. The motive for the attack remains unclear, and the couple's five children have been placed with the youth welfare office. This incident occurs in the context of a reported rise in femicides in Germany, with 360 women and girls killed in 2023.