Police secure a street where five dead children were found in an apartment house in Solingen, Germany. Photo / AP
Police secure a street where five dead children were found in an apartment house in Solingen, Germany. Photo / AP
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Five children were found dead at an apartment in a western German city Thursday (Friday NZT), and their mother is suspected of killing them, authorities said.
Special police investigate at a house where five dead children were found in Solingen, Germany. Photo / AP
The bodies were found in Solingen, near Cologne and Duesseldorf.
The 27-year-oldmother of the three girls and two boys later tried to kill herself in Duesseldorf and was taken to a hospital with injuries, police spokesman Stefan Weiand told n-tv television.
The dead girls were ages 1, 2 and 3, and the boys were 6 and 8, German news agency dpa reported.
The mother's sixth child, an 11-year-old boy, survived and was with relatives.
Police secure the entrance of a house where five dead children were found in Solingen, Germany. Photo / AP
There was no immediate information on the causes of death or possible motive.
The bodies were found after the children's grandmother, who lives 60km away, notified police on Thursday afternoon, said the region's top security official, Herbert Reul.
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