Young German mother kills herself, child

MOSCOW. August 28. KAZINFORM A twenty seven-year-old woman threw her two children off a balcony and then jumped herself in the German city of Pforzheim on Thursday, national media said, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

The woman and her two-month boy died, while her four-year-old son suffered severe injuries.

According to prosecutors, the young mother, an ethnic Turk, suffered from "paranoid schizophrenia" and had recently stopped taking medication.

The father of the children was at work when the tragedy occurred, Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.