Finding of four slain infants stuns Austria

THE bodies of four slain infants have been found at an apartment complex in southern Austria.

Two were stuffed in a basement freezer, one entombed in a paint bucket filled with concrete and one in a plastic bag beneath debris in a garden shed.

Investigators said the infants' 32-year-old mother confessed to killing them out of despair over her inability to pay the bills and fear that having a child might drive away her long-time male partner.