Photo taken from the hrt.hr website
The children, who were with their father for the weekend, were strangled
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ZAGREB The lifeless bodies of three children were found this morning in an apartment on the outskirts of Zagreb, and police believe that their father, an Austrian citizen who has been working in Croatia for years, killed them and subsequently attempted to commit suicide.
As local media reports, citing police, the three children – seven-year-old twins and a four-year-old brother – were reportedly killed by strangulation. Before killing his children, according to the media, the man, separated, would have posted a letter on social media stating that he was left by his new partner and was left without money.
The horrendous crime was discovered tonight after a friend of the man alerted the police by pointing to a message on Facebook in which the man announced his intention to take his own life. Bursting into his home in a wealthy neighborhood of the Croatian capital at around three in the morning, the police found the bodies of the three strangled children and their father in a serious state, caused by poisoning with psychiatric drugs. The man was transported to the hospital.
According to preliminary information, the couple had been divorced for some years. The mother, from Croatia, lives in Dubrovnik, and this weekend the three children were with their father.– .
