In Eberdingen in Baden-Württemberg, a man killed his wife and a child. The man then judged himself. A second child was taken to a clinic with serious injuries.

According to initial police findings, a 35-year-old man killed his partner and a six-year-old girl and then himself in Eberdingen (Ludwigsburg district).

According to investigators, the crimes happened just before midnight on Thursday evening. As the police in Ludwigsburg announced, rescue workers also took a four-year-old boy to a hospital with serious injuries on Friday night.

An acquaintance of the 33-year-old dead had alerted the police because she was worried. Officers found the bodies at the family home. The background was still unclear on Friday morning.