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Only the older brother survived: the mother is said to have killed five children in Germany
A 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.
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. Then the boy apparently took another train to Mönchengladbach to see his grandmother. According to investigators, the 27-year-old jumped in front of an S-Bahn line 1 at around 2 p.m. According to a fire department spokesman, the woman was recovered between two track beds and taken to a hospital. wound. 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, 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 do not know how they were killed,” said a spokesman.
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.
Solingen is located in Bergisches Land, about 25 kilometers from Düsseldorf. Wuppertal Police Chief Markus Röhrl, the head of Solingen, told dpa: “That is a shocking dimension.” As far as he knew, nothing like this had ever 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 my prayers with five young children who were torn from life so terribly early.”
Time and again, the cases in which parents kill their children are horrifying. In North Rhine-Westphalia last April, a 41-year-old man killed his wife and three children and fell from a bridge to his death. (cma / sda / dpa)
