8 children’s bodies found in separate house slayings

FIVE children between the ages of three and nine were found dead in a house in the northern German village of Darry yesterday, police said.

Their 31-year-old mother has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the “violent” deaths of the children and has been placed in psychiatric care, a police statement said.

“Based on preliminary investigation the motive appears to be a psychiatric illness of the woman,” police in the northern city of Kiel said.