The bodies of twin baby girls were found wrapped in plastic bags in a German flat after a young woman arrived at hospital with severe stomach pain.
A 29-year-old woman – the tenant of the flat in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt – called the emergency services on Sunday night.
She was rushed to hospital with abdominal pain.
It was there that the doctors saw signs which suggested she had been pregnant shortly before arriving there.
A relative – reportedly the girls’ grandmother – went to the flat to bring her clothes.
She then shockingly discovered ‘several bags in the bathtub’.
She opened the first and discovered the dead newborn and phoned the police straight away.
They arrived on the scene and at 6.30pm on Monday, they found the second body.
German police squad formation in protective gear. Stock photo
Homicide officers and forensics examined the flat. Stock image of German police
An autopsy carried out the following day at Halle Forensic Medicine Department found they died from a lack of oxygen, according to German news site Bild.
But the babies had been alive at the time of birth.
Homicide officers and forensics examined the flat and the woman was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.