Daughter of a EU Commission official.

A teenage Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested on suspicion of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old female student in Germany, police and prosecutors said. The victim is reportedly the daughter of a EU Commission official.

The 17-year-old Afghan was arrested on Friday after his DNA was found at the scene of the crime and he was identified on CCTV, authorities in the south-west German town of Freiburg told a press conference.

The Afghan, who has said nothing to investigators about the alleged crimes, arrived in Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied minor and had been living with a host family.

The teenage victim, Maria Ladenburger, was a medical student who was found dead on the banks of the river Dreisam, which Freiburg straddles, on 16 October.

The press reports that the dead girl’s father is Clemens Ladenburger, a lawyer who works as the right hand man to the legal director of the European Commission.