Teenager sought over killing of nine-year-old boy in Germany

A photo showing the suspect - named by police as Marcel Hesse - bragging about the killing was circulating on the so-called darknet.

A 19-year-old man is being hunted on suspicion of murdering a nine-year-old boy in the western German town of Herne and boasting about the killing in an online video.

Police in the city of Bochum said authorities received a call late on Monday from a member of the public, who feared that a killing had taken place in the nearby town of Herne.