Mother kills her five children

A BELGIUM mother killed her five children before trying to commit suicide at home, officials said yesterday.

Four girls and a boy, aged between four and 14, were stabbed with a knife during the afternoon break from school before the woman called emergency services.

She tried to kill herself and was in critical condition at a local hospital. A note reading “Call the police, urgent” was taped to the front door of the middle-class house on the outskirts of Nivelles, 32km south of Brussels. “She left a letter that lets it appear that she committed the facts,” Bernard Goethals of the prosecutor’s office said.