Recovering German mayor-elect says her daughter was knife attacker - UPI.com

On Wednesday, local officials said Iris Stalzer, a newly elected mayor in Germany, accused her 17-year-old adopted daughter of attacking and stabbing her. File Photo by Jens Schlueter/EPA

Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A newly-elected German mayor named her daughter as the suspected assailant after a knife attack left the political leader in critical condition.

Iris Stalzer, a member of Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party elected last month as mayor of Herdecke, was stabbed Tuesday inside her home in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.Iris Stalzer

On Wednesday, local officials said the mayor-elect accused her 17-year-old adopted daughter as the suspected attacker.

Conflicting reports had also suggested the suspect was Stalzer's unidentified 15-year-old son, who also was arrested.