The bodies of three babies have been found in a basement freezer in the town of Wenden, in western Germany, prosecutors have said.
A woman believed to be the mother of the three has been arrested, a state prosecutor's office spokesman said.
The three were not stillborn, police said, but the cause of death and the infants' ages have not been released.
There have been several similar cases in Germany recently, including a woman jailed for killing her eight children. The babies appeared to have died shortly after birth and were in the freezer wrapped in plastic bags, the prosecutor's office said.
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