Five children found dead in German apartment

Five children have been found dead at an apartmen tina western German city and their mother is suspected of killing them, authorities said.

The bodies were found in Solingen, near Cologne and Duesseldorf.

The 27- year-old mo ther of the three girls and two boys later jumped in front of a train in Duesseldorf and was taken to hospital with injuries, police spokesman Stefan Weiand said.

Mr We iands aid the children’ s mother had been “seriously injured” and was being treated in hospital under police guard.

“Background and further details are not known at this point and that is what we are trying to find out ,” Mr Weiand said, adding that police investigators were at the scene “in full force”.

The dead girls were aged one, two and three, and the boys were six and eight. The mother’s sixth child, an 11- year-old boy, survived and was with relatives.

There was no information on the causes of death.