Drama in NRW: mother is said to have killed five of her children - "Rescue workers came out crying"

In Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, five children were found dead in a private apartment.

As the police said, the mother of the children is considered a suspect.

• In

  Solingen

  , five

  children were

  found dead in a private apartment

  on Thursday

  .

• As the

  Wuppertal police

  announced, the

  mother of

  the children is

  suspected

  .

• The 27-year-old is currently in

  hospital

  after a failed suicide attempt

  .

  She is under

  police protection

  .

Update from September 3, 8 p.m.:

Lord Mayor

visited the house on Thursday evening where the

found five children dead at noon.

"For me it is still incomprehensible and incomprehensible," writes the

on his Facebook page.

A

day of mourning

for his city of

since today.

Kurzbach further reports that he lit a candle in front of the house for the deceased and asked all residents of

to do the same this evening.

In the meantime,

spoke to residents who

observed

the arrival of the

.

Accordingly, the

open the door with a crowbar and went into the apartment.

"When the police and rescue workers came out crying, it was clear to us that something bad must have happened," a local resident told the portal. The police have since announced that they had made contact with the father of the

who had been

. However, no further information was provided announced.

Solingen / NRW: Police President speaks of "shocking dimensions"

Update September 3, 16:44:

Even

Markus Röhrl was met by the events ". This is a harrowing dimension" To his knowledge was "never ever come across in our Bergisch before that," Röhrl told the dpa.

At

this point in time, the police could not give any information about

the

the five

.

According to image information, the

said to be

three girls aged one, two and three years, and two boys aged six and eight.

Solingen: NRW Interior Minister Reul shocked by "family drama" - "fills me with great sadness"

Update from September 3, 4:21 p.m.:

What had previously been speculated by several media outlets has now been partially confirmed by the police.

As the spokesman for the local

announced, the mother of five in true

found dead

as

.

He also stated that the woman then tried to kill herself by throwing herself in front of a S-Bahn.

The 27-year-old survived the attempt, was rescued by the fire department and taken to a

.

Even

(CDU), the interior minister of

has in the meantime to the events in

expressed: "The family drama from

fills me with great sadness, and right now I am small with my thoughts and my prayers at five

who were torn from life so terribly early, ”said the 68-year-old on Thursday in

.

Solingen / NRW: five children found dead - grandmother probably called the police

Update from September 3, 3:22 p.m.:

Now there are the first details about the discovery of five

in

.

According to the picture, the grandmother of the children from Mönchengladbach called the police.

She reportedly said that her 27-year-old daughter killed five of her children.

She said she was traveling with another child to commit suicide.

According to the report, the

then found the

in the apartment.

They should be one, two, three, six and eight years old.

Solingen / NRW: Five dead children found - new details announced

According to the report, the mother jumped in

front of an S-Bahn

in

in

the early afternoon

.

She survived seriously injured and is under

.

At the moment she shouldn't be accessible.

In addition, another child at the age of 11 is said to have been found intact with the grandmother.

The German press agency also reports with reference to safety circles.

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The forensics department enters the apartment building in Solingen, where the police had previously found five dead children.

© Oliver Berg / dpa

Drama in Solingen / North Rhine-Westphalia: Five dead children discovered in a private apartment

First report

: Solingen - In

in

-

a bad discovery has been made.

The

of

The

in

on Thursday.

The investigators assume a crime based on initial findings.

Solingen: Terrible find in North Rhine-Westphalia - five dead children discovered in an apartment

The children were in a

-

been discovered, a police spokesman said.

It remained unclear who discovered the children.

Information on the

and possible

or possible

have not yet been given.

There is also no information about the

the

or the

.

The bodies were found in an

in an

.

writes that the house would be on Hasselstrasse.

Police and rescue workers are on site.

Solingen is located in the Bergisches Land, around 35 kilometers from Düsseldorf.

In general, we do not report suicides so that such cases do not encourage potential copycats.

Reporting will only take place if the circumstances receive special public attention.

If you or someone you know suffers from an existential life crisis or depression, please contact the telephone counseling on: 0800-1110111.

Help is also available from the Psychiatry Crisis Service for Munich and Upper Bavaria on 0180-6553000.

You can find more information on the website www.krisendienst-psychiatrie.de.

Only in May were two dead children found in Lower Bavaria.

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