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A mother is said to have killed five of her six children in Solingen. The 27-year-old then threw herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf’s main station, a police spokesman in Wuppertal said on Thursday. She survived the suicide attempt and was injured and taken to hospital.
The dead children are three girls of one and a half years, two and three years and two boys of six and eight years. An eleven-year-old son of the woman survived and was placed with relatives.
The crime scene is in the Hasseldelle district of Solingen. The bodies were discovered in an apartment in an apartment building. According to information from dpa, the grandmother informed the police shortly before 2 pm In the afternoon, numerous policemen and ambulances could be seen in front of the house. The crime scene was extensively cordoned off.
Mother recovered injured
The suspicious mother is said to have driven with the eleven-year-old son to the main station in Düsseldorf, where she headed for the S-Bahn line 1 tracks at 1:47 p.m. According to a fire department spokesperson, the woman She was recovered between two track beds and taken to hospital injured.
“We are taking on a crime and we will have to question the mother about it, but at the moment she cannot be questioned yet,” said police spokesman Stefan Weiand in Solingen. “We still don’t know exactly what happened, when and why, just that it is a very tragic situation.” The researchers did not respond to rumors that the children may have been killed with tablets. “We don’t know how they died,” a spokesman said. Police have been able to contact the father, but did not provide any further information.
“Something like this has never happened before”
The forensic department was in place until the evening. The corpses had not yet been removed. Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach (SPD) was visibly shocked after visiting the crime scene. “Today is a day when we are very sad in Solingen because an act has occurred that has deeply touched our hearts,” Kurzbach told reporters. In the evening, Kurzbach and other politicians from various parties appeared in silence for a minute of mourning.
Solingen is located in Bergisches Land, about 25 kilometers from Düsseldorf. Wuppertal Police Chairman Markus Röhrl, the head of Solingen, told dpa: “That is a shocking dimension.” As far as he knew, “something like this had never happened to us in the Bergisch region.”
The state interior minister, Reul, was also surprised: “The family drama in Solingen fills me with great sadness and at this moment I am with my thoughts and prayer with five young children who were ripped from life so terribly early.”
