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Mother, three children found dead in car in Germany (Roundup)
Sep 24, 2009, 13:28 GMT
Berlin - A mother and her three children were found dead in a burned-out car near Berlin early Thursday in what appeared to be a case of murder-suicide, police said.
Investigators found a petrol cannister in the vehicle, which was parked on an isolated road near Schoenefeld airport on the outskirts of Berlin, a police spokesman said.
The woman's husband told police that his wife had left a message on the family's answering machine, indicating that she was going to take her own life.
The husband, 48, reported his wife missing on Wednesday evening.
Witnesses alerted the fire brigade to a burning car at around 2:30 am. When they arrived on they found the 48-year-old mother and her children aged six to 11 burned beyond recognition.
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