Five children found dead - mentally ill mother a suspect

Five children aged from three to nine have been found killed in a house in northern Germany, police said today.

Police said that their mother was a suspect and had been sent to a psychiatric facility.

The gruesome discovery was made in the town of Darry in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Few details were immediately available but police described the 31-year-old woman as mentally ill.

“As far as currently known, the motive is to be sought in the mother’s mental illness,” police said in a statement.