The bodies of eight babies have been found wrapped in towels and
inside plastic bags in an apartment in Germany's Bavaria state, police said
Friday -- a gruesome discovery that spurred authorities to hunt for the woman
who last lived there as they try to explain why and how this happened.
A woman in the
town of Wallenfels called authorities Thursday afternoon after finding one
body, said Jurgen Stadter, a police spokesman based about 30 miles west in
Coburg.
Authorities went
to the apartment and found six additional corpses, Bavarian police said Friday. The same agency
reported later in the day on its website that another newborn's body had been
found -- and, like the seven others, it was wrapped in a towel and placed in a
plastic bag.
Martin Dippold,
a state prosecutor in Coburg, did not say exactly where the various babies'
bodies were found, their estimated ages, their presumed cause of death or how
long ago they'd likely died.
Yet Dippold did
say, "The (bodies) are in poor condition."
The results of
forensic examinations, which could reveal significant information about what
happened, aren't expected back until next week. And no one has been arrested in
connection with their deaths.
But
authorities are looking intently for the apartment's most recent occupant, a
45-year-old woman. Dippold said authorities expect this woman is the mother of
the babies.
Wallenfels is
a town some 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Nuremberg and 110 miles south of
Leipzig. It is in the eastern part of Bavaria, the southeastern German state
also known as Bayern that borders the Czech Republic and Austria.
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