Man arrested after woman 'stabbed up to 20 times'
The 28-year-old woman was found seriously injured after emergency services were called after reports of a disturbance in Firbank Road, Perth, at about 8:30pm on Thursday.
She is believed to have been stabbed. Her children, aged two and five, were thought to have been in the flat at the time.
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Hide AdIt is understood she had been stabbed up to 20 times by her attacker.
Tayside Police said a 38-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the death and a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
The woman was last night named by neighbours as Aleks-andra Korkus, from Mikolow, near Katowice.
She had a son and a daughter - two-year-old Alan and five-year-old Nadia.
Local residents told of their shock at the killing.
Bill McMillan, 61, who lives next door, said: "I saw her being trolleyed out by two paramedics. The sides of her head were absolutely covered in blood."