The bodies of three German babies have been found stuffed in a basement freezer and their mother has been arrested.
The bodies were found last night after police received a tip-off and searched the home in Wenden in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Prosecutor’s spokesman Johannes Daheim said police determined the three children had not been stillborn but did not say how old they were or what the cause of death was.
The name of the woman was not released.
There have been a number of similar cases in Germany. In February, police were called to a home in northern Germany where a dead child was discovered in the cellar.
In January, a 28-year-old German woman was charged with manslaughter after the remains of three babies were discovered in her house and the home of a relative. That woman has denied killing the three babies.
Another woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 for killing eight of her babies in eastern Germany.