Chancellor Friedrich Merz says "we fear for the life" of Iris Stalzer, a newly-elected mayor of the western town of Herdecke.
A newly-elected mayor in western Germany has been stabbed and left critically injured near her home, police say.
Iris Stalzer, 57, is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) and became the mayor of Herdecke in the North-Rhine Westph... [862 chars]