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Five dead children found in an apartment in Solingen
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Five dead children found in private apartment
Five dead children were found in a private apartment in Solingen. The 27-year-old mother later threw herself in front of a train, but survived seriously injured. The eldest son survived and was placed with relatives.
Five dead children were found in an apartment building in Solingen. The suspect is the 27-year-old mother. After the fact, she threw herself in front of a train and survived seriously injured.
meA Solingen mother is said to have killed five of her children. The children were found Thursday in a city apartment in Bergisches Land, Wuppertal police confirmed to the German news agency. The suspect is the 27-year-old mother. According to the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul (CDU), she threw herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf central station and survived seriously injured. There was another boy (11) with her who was fine. The dead children were 8, 6, 3, 2, and 1 year old, respectively.
The crime scene is in the Hasseldelle district of Solingen. The bodies were discovered in an apartment building. The grandmother, who lives in Mönchengladbach, 60 kilometers away, is said to have informed the police shortly before 2:00 p.m. In the afternoon numerous policemen and ambulances could be seen in front of the house in Solingen. The crime scene was extensively cordoned off.
The children killed are three girls aged one and a half, two and three years old and two boys aged six and eight, according to police. The eleven-year-old son, who survived, was placed with relatives.
“A very tragic situation”
The suspected mother is said to have brought the eleven-year-old girl to Düsseldorf central station, where she threw herself in front of an S-Bahn line 1 around 2 p.m. According to a fire department spokesperson, the woman was recovered between two track beds and taken to hospital injured. According to the police, the woman is German.
“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, only that it is a very tragic situation.” According to the police, information on the cause of death could not yet be released.
“The family drama in Solingen fills me with great sadness and right now I am with my thoughts and prayers with five young children who were ripped from life so terribly early,” Interior Minister Reul said in Düsseldorf.
The crime scene is in the Hasseldelle district of Solingen
Source: dpa / Marcel Kusch
What: REUTERS
Source: dpa / Oliver Berg
Solingen is located in Bergisches Land, about 25 kilometers from Düsseldorf. The Wuppertal police chief responsible for Solingen, Markus Röhrl, told the dpa at the scene: “That is a shocking dimension.” As far as he knows, “something like this has never happened to us at Bergisch.”
Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach (SPD) arrived at the crime scene late in the afternoon and left her visibly shocked. “Today is a day when we in Solingen are very sad because an act has occurred that has deeply touched our hearts,” Kurzbach told reporters at the scene.
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