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A mother suspected of killing five of her children left her eldest son on a train before attempting suicide, it was reported.
The 27-year-old woman, named Christiane K in German media, is suspected of killing five of her six children in Solingen.
The children are three girls, one and a half years, two and three years old, and two boys: Luca, eight, and Timo, six.
Police believe they were killed with some kind of pills, RTL reported.
Their bodies were found in the family’s apartment in Solingen by the police.
A sixth child, 11-year-old Marcel, traveled on a train with his mother after the killings, RTL reported.
He got off at Düsseldorf central station and jumped onto the tracks, police said.
Marcel stayed on the train to travel to Mönchengladbach to see his grandmother.
Police spokesman Stefan Weiand said of the killings: “At the moment, we assume that the person responsible is the 27-year-old mother.
“The mother threw herself in front of a train in Duesseldorf and is seriously injured.
“Right now she is being treated at the hospital.”
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Dozens of emergency services workers are present outside the family’s home.
Locals have been sitting outside the building in the rain in apparent shock at the horrific events.
North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul told RTL: “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 torn from life. so terribly early. “
The mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach, said in the afternoon: “Today is a day in which we in Solingen are very sad because something happened that deeply impacted us.”
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