8 babies' bodies found

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8 babies' bodies found

A metal gate is taped closed as French police investigate the scene where the corpses of eight newborn babies were found in the village of Villers-au-Tertre.

Villers-au-Tertre - French police detained a couple after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in a house and in the garden of another home in a northern village, officials said on Wednesday.

Police with sniffer dogs were continuing their search in Villers-au-Tertre, in the north of France, after arresting the pair, both in their mid-40s, on Tuesday.

A local councillor said the new owners of a house in the village had first called in the police on Saturday after finding the bones of infants in the garden of their new home as they were digging there.

Police had found two bodies at that site, said the councillor.

Police inquiries led to another house in the village around a kilometre away, where more babies' bodies were found, neighbours said.

Couple will be charged

The couple concerned were respected in the community, the councillor added: the husband worked in the building trade while his wife worked as a nursing assistant.

The prosecutors' office in the nearby city of Douai was to open a judicial inquiry on Thursday which was expected to lead to the couple being charged, a judicial source said.

Paramilitary gendarmes deployed outside the house in Villers-au-Tertre where the babies' bodies were found, before sealing off the entrance on Wednesday evening.

Officers at the scene confirmed that two dog handlers and five sniffer dogs had been working at both houses Wednesday.

"I'm still in shock," the former mayor of the village, Daniel Collignon, told AFP.

The village was a very calm, very rural place, he said, adding that he had only heard about the investigation on television......

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