Mother declared a suspect after bodies of five children found near Cologne
Police have said the children were aged one, two, three, six and eight, while another youngster, 11, survived.
Friday 4 September 2020 11:28, UK
A 27-year-old woman is suspected of killing five of her children, whose bodies were found in an apartment in Germany, police have said.
Officers said the bodies of three girls and two boys were discovered in the city of Solingen, not far from Dusseldorf and Cologne.
The suspect was taken to hospital with injuries after she was found on train tracks in Dusseldorf, they added.
The girls were aged one, two and three, while the two boys were aged six and eight. The mother's sixth child, an 11-year-old boy, survived and is with relatives.
The bodies were found after the children's grandmother, who lives 37 miles away (60km), contacted police, local politician Herbert Reul said.
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, and a motive is unclear.
Images published by local media showed three ambulances outside a block of flats in the Hasseldelle area of the city.
Authorities in nearby Wuppertal are investigating.
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