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German police have found the bodies of several babies in an apartment in the southern state of Bavaria.Police said a local resident found the body of one baby on Thursday afternoon in the apartment in the small town of Wallenfels, near the Czech border, and called the emergency services.When officers arrived at the site, they uncovered several other bodies in a room at the property."Officers Read more [...]

The infants’ remains were found in Wallenfels, a community some 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Nuremberg and 110 miles south of Leipzig, the Bavarian police said on its website.

Wallenfels is a town in the eastern part of Bavaria, the southeastern German state also known as Bayern that borders Austria and the Czech Republic.

WALLENFELS, Germany — The bodies of seven babies have been found in a German apartment, police in the state of Bavaria said Friday. The infants’ remains were discovered by a woman Thursday in Wallenfels, a community some 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Nuremberg and 110 miles south of Leipzig, Bavarian police said on their website. According to police, a Wallenfels resident found the remains of one baby and called authorities. Police then arrived and found the additional Read more [...]

BERLIN -- The bodies of eight babies have been found at an apartment in a Bavarian town, German police said Friday. A local woman contacted emergency services after finding one body on Thursday afternoon at the apartment in Wallenfels, police said. Police then found several more bodies in a room at the apartment. Police and prosecutors initially said they believed there were seven bodies. Later Friday, they said an eighth set of remains had been found -- like the others, wrapped Read more [...]

They did not give any details of the circumstances of their deaths or how many bodies were found, but local press reported two babies had died. The bodies were found in the small town of Wallenfels in northern Bavaria. A police spokeswoman in nearby Bayreuth refused to comment. Criminal investigations teams and prosecutors began their investigation immediately after the discovery, with prosecutors set to release further details of the case on Friday, reported the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Last Read more [...]

They did not give any details of the circumstances of their deaths or how many bodies were found, but local press reported two babies had died.A police spokeswoman in Bayreuth, a town in the north of Bavaria, refused to comment. Last May, a woman was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for killing two of her children and hiding them in a freezer.In October 2013, in Bavaria, the bodies of two babies from the 1980s were found during construction works. Read more [...]

Last week, a nightclub in the town of Bad Tölz in Bavaria, Germany, admitted that it was barring asylum seekers from entering. The Local, an English-language German news outlet, reported on Wednesday that last week, club-goers noticed that bouncers at Brucklyn were turning away refugees. The move apparently prompted onlookers to call the bouncers “Nazi pigs,” Brucklyn explained in a Facebook post. The club added that the decision was made to keep refugees out in order “to maintain well-being Read more [...]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may get an earful for her open-door refugee policy when she visits her Bavarian political allies next week.The Christian Social Union party, a member of the governing coalition, is refusing to back down on demands to cap the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Germany, something Merkel has repeatedly rejected. A draft resolution for a CSU convention in Munich that Merkel is scheduled to address on Nov. 20 says Germany needs to set a refugee quota, according to a Read more [...]

"We are not going to argue any more," Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder said as he and Austrian counterpart Hans Jörg Schelling signed what they both called an "acceptable result". The spat centred on bank Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA), the state lender in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Bavaria's state lender BayernLB bought a majority stake in 2007 in HGAA but two years later, as the global financial crisis raged, the bank came close to collapse and Austria nationalised it. BayernLB Read more [...]