A 37 year old woman died during the early hours of Saturday morning after allegedly being stabbed by her ex-partner.
Police in Irún were called out to a road traffic accident on the GI-2134 near the Hospital Comarcal del Bidasoa at around 04:30 on Saturday morning. Arriving on the scene, the police found a woman suffering from knife wounds to the neck and a man suffering stab wounds to the stomach.
Also at the scene was the ex-partner of the injured woman and it is thought that he engineered the traffic accident and then stabbed the woman and also a man who tried to intervene and help her.
Both the injured were taken to hospital but the woman later died from her injuries. The ex-partner has been arrested on suspicion of murder.