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Finnish police find bodies of five babies in cellar | Finnish police find bodies of five babies in cellar |
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Finnish police have found the bodies of five apparently stillborn babies in the basement of a block of flats and taken a 35-year-old woman into custody. | Finnish police have found the bodies of five apparently stillborn babies in the basement of a block of flats and taken a 35-year-old woman into custody. |
Officers made the discovery after being called out to investigate a strong smell emanating from the cellar of a building in Oulu, in the north-west of the country. | |
The woman turned herself in and said the bodies were those of three stillborn babies she had given birth to between five and 10 years ago, a police statement said. | The woman turned herself in and said the bodies were those of three stillborn babies she had given birth to between five and 10 years ago, a police statement said. |
She was unable to explain the discrepancy in the number of bodies. | She was unable to explain the discrepancy in the number of bodies. |
Police said the precise age of the infants could not be established, but they appeared to be "foetuses nearing maturity whose death dates back several years". | Police said the precise age of the infants could not be established, but they appeared to be "foetuses nearing maturity whose death dates back several years". |
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