Lublin Murders, police seek whereabouts of missing Mother

The bodies of five infants have been found in a barrel with sauerkraut in one of the houses in Czerniejów near Lublin. The infants might have been born alive. The mother of the children, a 38-year old woman, left the house a week ago. Neighbors say that they had no idea where she has gone, and that she never appeared pregnant. "The children died more or less at the same time" spokesperson for Lublin police Janusz Wójtowicz told Rzeczpospolita daily. "Doctors claim that the children were delivered with some professional assistance. No-one knows where their mother is staying and her husband says that he intended to report her disappearance to the police. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.Z.