A doll without a head has triggered a large-scale deployment of police and firemen near the town of Weinstadt in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
"It looked just like a human corpse," a police spokesman told Stuttgarter Nachrichten, commenting on the operation.
The police were reportedly called to the scene after a passer-by spotted the suspicious "body" on the outskirts of the town.
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The doll lay at the bottom of a shaft. When firefighters accessed it, it turned out to be a decapitated doll.
The Associated Press wrote that the doll was of human height and dressed in ordinary clothes, covered with stains that looked like human blood.
In January, a beheaded doll was found near an Amsterdam mosque. A note left on the doll's chest warned against "Islamization" in the Netherlands and was supposedly left by members of a far-right group.