The bodies of “probably seven” babies were found inside an apartment in Germany’s Bavaria state, police said Friday — a gruesome discovery that spurred authorities to hunt for the woman who last lived there, as they worked to identify the remains.
A woman in the town of Wallenfels called authorities Thursday afternoon after finding one body, said Jurgen Stadter, a police spokesman based about 30 miles west in Coburg.
Police went to the apartment and found more corpses, said Stadter, who estimated seven in all.
The bodies are in poor condition, Bavarian police said on their website.
Authorities have not said how old the children appeared to have been, and police said the results of forensic examinations aren’t expected back until next week. No one has been arrested in connection with their deaths.
Stadter told CNN on Friday afternoon that police are looking for the apartment’s most recent occupant, a 45-year-old woman.
Wallenfels is a town some 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Nuremberg and 110 miles south of Leipzig. It is in the eastern part of Bavaria, the southeastern German state also known as Bayern that borders the Czech Republic and Austria.