Berlin, Germany (CNN) An Iraqi migrant suspected of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in western Germany was arrested by Kurdish forces in Iraq one day after German police issued an international warrant for his arrest.

Ali Bashar, a 20-year-old asylum-seeker, was captured by security forces at the airport in Irbil, northern Iraq, a top senior security official in the Kurdistan Regional Government [KRG] told CNN on Friday. He had fled from Germany to Iraq via Istanbul with his family on June 2.

The arrest was made following close cooperation and coordination with the German consulate in the Kurdistan region, said Dindar Zebari.

"I thank the participating Kurdish security forces for making the arrest possible," German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday.

Susanna Maria Feldman, a resident in the western German city of Wiesbaden, was reported missing by her mother on May 23.

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