Hockenheim
Two siblings found dead in apartment – woman arrested
The police and the public prosecutor’s office in Mannheim have informed about the case (symbol image)
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Cruel find on Easter Sunday: two siblings were found dead in an apartment in Hockenheim. A related woman was arrested.
Two siblings were found dead in an apartment in Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, on Easter Sunday. The children were seven and nine years old, as announced by the public prosecutor’s office and the police headquarters in Mannheim in the evening. A 43-year-old “relative” was arrested on suspicion of a homicide at the scene.
A police spokesman did not want to say what relationship she had with the children – i.e. whether it was the mother.
Siblings are to be autopsied
According to him, the bodies of the siblings are to be autopsied on Tuesday. No further details have been given about the children.
The statement said that the public prosecutor’s office in Mannheim and the department for capital crimes of the Criminal Police Office in Mannheim had started further investigations into the 43-year-old. The Central Forensic Science Department of the Heidelberg Criminal Police Department and the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Heidelberg are also involved.
Homicide in Hockenheim?
The investigators did not initially release any further information about the alleged homicide in Hockenheim (Rhein-Neckar district) on Easter Sunday.
Further source:Message from the Mannheim police.