Munich/Vienna - A man suspected of having killed and dismembered a salesman in Munich was arrested in Austria, the Munich police said Wednesday.

The victim's arms were found last Friday in the Isar river in the German state of Bavaria, while the torso of the 35-year-old man was found in the Czech Republic.

The alleged killer is a German national born in 1969, an Austrian police official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The suspect was caught near Nickelsdorf on the Hungarian border on Tuesday evening, according to Austrian press agency APA.

A passer-by discovered the victim's arms in the river, on the outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. Traces found in the man's apartment suggest that he may have been murdered there.

The man had been last heard from on January 22. (dpa)