POLICE IN THE southern French town of Louchats say that they have found five bodies of babies at the home of a couple.
After the body of a newborn baby was found in a thermal bag earlier in the day, police officers discovered four more bodies, local station iTele reported.
AFP reports, citing a source close to the case, that the four bodies were found in a freezer.
The 40-year-old father was taken into custody while the 35-year-old mother was hospitalised, the AFP source added.
It was the father who initially found the bag containing the first corpse of a newborn baby early yesterday at the family home.
The mother apparently “gave birth at home alone”, the source said, adding that she had been taken to a hospital in Bordeaux “for gynaecological and psychiatric examinations”.
The woman “at this stage does not appear to have a history of mental illness”.
Autopsies will be performed today to determine whether the babies were born alive, a source close to the case said.
The couple has two daughters aged 13 and 15.
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