LAST UPDATE | 13 May 2019

THE BODIES OF another two women have been found during investigations into the deaths of three people in a Bavarian hotel room who were killed with crossbow bolts.

The bodies of two other women have now been uncovered in the north German town of Wittingen.

Detectives pare continuing to investigate the deaths of a man and two women discovered over the weekend in the Bavarian town of Passau, close to the Austrian border.

The two crime scenes are around 660 kilometres apart at opposite ends of Germany.

Police made the latest discovery of two female bodies when they went to the home of one of the women discovered dead in the hotel room in Passau.

A police spokesperson confirmed that the two corpses in Wittingen, Lower Saxony, had not been killed by crossbow bolts, “the modus operandi cannot be compared”.

“Further details and identities of the two women are still unknown – possible connections to the dead found in Passau are currently the subject of investigations,” added police in a statement.

Forensic police officers are combing both crime scenes for clues.

‘Strange group’ 

Hotel staff in Passau had on Saturday discovered the three dead Germans in their room around noon alongside two crossbows.

A third crossbow was later found packed inside a bag, police said.

The three were a 33-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man from Rhineland-Palatinate state and a 30-year-old woman from Wittingen, who had arrived Friday.

Local media reported that the man and the 33-year-old woman were found dead in bed holding hands, with bolts in their heads and chests.

The other woman was lying on the floor with a bolt in her chest.

Reports said the three had arrived Friday from different parts of Germany and had all checked in without luggage.

The man, who was dressed in a suit had a long, white beard, while the two women were dressed in black, witnesses told German daily Bild.

Police are also inspecting a pick-up truck, reportedly belonging to one of the deceased, which had an archery logo stuck on it.

One of the women had booked the triple room for €85 a night, without breakfast, for three nights.

“It was a strange group,” a guest recalled, according to the newspaper Bild.

They had all wished a “good evening”, taken glasses of soft drink and water, and then disappeared into the second-floor room as rain fell outside.

Police said the town’s prosecutor had ordered autopsies which aimed to ascertain the cause and circumstances of the deaths.

Initial results from the post-mortem investigations are expected by tomorrow morning, police said.

© – AFP 2019