Afghan migrant, 17, held over rape and murder of university student

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The boy, from Afghanistan, came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor

A teenage Afghan migrant - who arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor last year - has been taken into custody on suspicion of the rape and killing of a 19-year-old university student.

Prosecutor Dieter Inhofer, in Freiburg, south-west Germany, said on Saturday that the 17-year-old asylum seeker was identified as a suspect based on traffic video from near the crime scene.