A memorial is placed at the site where the body of a stabbed schoolgirl was found in Freudenberg (Picture: Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Two teenage girls have admitted to stabbing a classmate to death, according to authorities.

The victim, identified only by her first name Luise, didn’t return home after visiting a friend on Saturday.

A massive police search uncovered her body the following day in a forest near a former railway station in the western town of Freudenberg.

Speaking yesterday, Florian Locker, head of Koblenz police’s homicide department gave further updates on the two teenagers questioned in relation to the death.

A book of condolences and a card reading ‘We mourn Luise’ at a Protestant church in Freudenberg (Picture: Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Police forces stand at a cordon near where the schoolgirl’s body was found (Picture: AP)

He said the two girls, aged 12 and 13, ‘made statements about the matter and in the end admitted the crime.’

Luise had been friends with her killers but the trio had fallen out, according to reports.

They all attended the same school with the 13-year-old in the same class as the victim.

Both suspects are too young to be held criminally responsible for their actions in Germany, where the age of criminal responsibility starts at 14.

The knife, or knives, involved in the stabbing are yet to be located.

The girls who ‘confessed’ cannot be arrested as they are below the age of criminal responsibility (Picture: Ina Fassbender/AFP)

A fence is seen close to the site where the body of a killed schoolgirl was found (Picture: Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Luise was found with a number of stab wounds and died from a huge loss of blood.

Prosecutors told the press they are assuming the ‘crime was committed by two children from the girl’s circle of acquaintances’.

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Source:: Metro News