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meA Solingen mother is said to have killed five of her six children. The children were found Thursday in a city apartment in Bergisches Land, Wuppertal police confirmed to the German news agency. The 27-year-old alleged mother threw herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf central station, according to North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) and survived seriously injured. The mother initially accompanied another child (11) who was well. 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.
“We accept a crime”
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. The police did not provide any information about the father.
The suspect mother is said to have brought the eleven-year-old boy to Düsseldorf Central Station. After that, the boy apparently took another train to Mönchengladbach to see his grandmother. According to investigators, the 27-year-old girl threw herself in front of an S-Bahn line 1 around 2 pm According to the fire department, the seriously injured woman was found between two roads and taken to a hospital. The FAZ learned from investigators Thursday night that her condition was “still critical.”
Ambulances are in front of a house in Solingen, where several dead children were found on Thursday.
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“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. According to their own statements, the police are now in contact with the father of the murdered children. Police spokesman Stefan Weiand did not provide further details Thursday.
“That is a heartbreaking dimension”
Forensics were on site until night. 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 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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Solingen is located in Bergisches Land, about 25 kilometers from Düsseldorf. Wuppertal Police Chairman Markus Röhrl, who is in charge of Solingen, told dpa at the scene: “That is a shocking dimension.” As far as he knew, “nothing like this has ever happened to us in the Bergisch region.”
North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul expressed his condolences on Thursday afternoon. “The family drama fills me with great sadness, and right now my thoughts and my prayers are with five young children who were torn from life so terribly early,” she said. The Mayor of Solingen also expressed his dismay: “Today is a day when we in Solingen are very sad because an act has occurred that has deeply touched our hearts.”
