German police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman with a sausage.

A sausage is sliced in this February 6, 2006 file photo. German police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman with a sausage. [Reuters]

Prosecutors and police said the 50-year-old was arrested after the woman's body was discovered in an apartment in Zwickau, eastern Germany. They said she had choked on a Bockwurst, a popular large German sausage.

The prosecutors said the man had given a patchy account of events, acknowledging that he may have "administered" a Bockwurst to the woman. They are now working to establish exactly what happened in the run up to her death.