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Bodies of three infants found in Innsbruck cellar (Roundup)

Jun 2, 2007, 11:51 GMT

Innsbruck, Austria - Police in Innsbruck began investigations Saturday into the grisly discovery of the corpses of three new-born babies in the cellar of an apartment house in a case reminiscent of a multiple infanticide in Austria two years ago. Police said a man doing rebuilding work in the cellar of an apartment house initially found the corpses of two infants. After alerting police, who came to investigate, a third corpse was found. Police said the babies were believed to have been new-born infants, with at least two of them being boys. Further details were to be forthcoming after an autopsy, which would also determine the gender of the third baby. The remains were in a badly decomposed state, a police spokesman said. Forensic and autopsy examinations would try to determine when the babies were born and whether they may have already been dead at birth. Police said all the residents of the three-storey apartment building had access to the cellar. The shocking find triggered recollections of the case in the Austrian state of Styria in May 2005, when residents of a multiple- family apartment house found a baby corpse in a deep freezer. Police then discovered the corpses of three further infants who had been killed at birth. In that case, the 33-year-old mother of the babies was sentenced to a life prison term, while her boyfriend was given a 15-year term. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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