Austrian Police reported on saturday, that a mother has confessed  to killing her three young daughters in an apartment in Vienna, without giving a motive.

The 31-year-old called the emergency services in the early hours saying she wanted to kill herself, and when police turned up they found the bodies of an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old girl.

The woman’s nine-year-old daughter who was however taken to hospital, was unable to be saved.

The Police added that the mother had some light injuries herself.

reports from the local media said that the three girls had been suffocated.