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Possible suicide pact in macabre German crossbow murders

A hotel on the banks of the river Ilz in Passau, southern Germany, were police are investigating the baffling deaths of three people found in a room of the Bavarian hotel with crossbow bolts in their bodies. [Photo: AFP]

Investigators were on Tuesday pursuing leads that five mysterious deaths, including three by crossbow bolts, may have been a murder-suicide pact among Germans with a reported passion for medieval folklore and weaponry.

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