Five children found dead in German flat

[webfact]

Five children found dead in German flat

 

Police officers are seen at the entrance of a residential building where the bodies of five children were found in the western town of Solingen, Germany, September 3, 2020. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

 

SOLINGEN (Reuters) - German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen and their mother, who is suspected of their murder, tried to kill herself, police said on Thursday.

 

Police received a tip-off at 1.45 p.m. (1145 GMT) that five children were dead in the apartment in Solingen, police spokesman Stefan Weiand said.

 

"Unfortunately, this proved to be the case," Weiand added. "At the moment, we assume that the 27-year-old mother was responsible."

 

"The mother threw herself in front of a train in Duesseldorf and is badly injured. At the moment she is being treated in hospital," he added. "There is one more child that survived."

 

Police were trying to find out the background to the tragedy.

 

Earlier, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition that the children's grandmother had called police to tell them that her daughter had killed five of her children and was out of her home with a further child.

 

The police then found the dead children, aged 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8, Bild said, adding that a further child - an 11-year-old son - was found unharmed at the grandmother's home.

 

(Reporting by Reuters TV and Paul Carrel; Editing by Toby Chopra and Alexandra Hudson)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-04

 

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[Thorgal]

Educating 3 youngsters that can go to school all alone is very hard to do as a young mother.

Imagine she had to do this with 3 more kids aged 1, 2 and 3 with little or no help.

[Scott]

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[Tug]

A horrific tragedy poor kids I’m sure we will know more in the days ahead probably drugs mental illness or both very sad rip kids

[Rimmer]

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[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

the 27-year-old mother

children, aged 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8, a further child - an 11-year-old son

pregnancy when 15 years old, and then on and on...

[Thorgal]

7 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

pregnancy when 15 years old, and then on and on...

...and covid-19 lockdown conditions with 6 children in a small condo...

[ravip]

RIP to the poor innocent kids.

People must think before producing to avoid such gruesome acts.

It happens in the developed world too...

[welovesundaysatspace]

51 minutes ago, Thorgal said:

...and covid-19 lockdown conditions with 6 children in a small condo...

Where does the article say that this tragedy has anything to do with Covid-19 measures?