German police probing the deaths of three people shot with crossbows in a Bavarian hotel in Passau... have found two more female bodies who suffered the same fate in a flat around 650 kilometers away.
According to the public prosecutor's office in Passau, the first three corpses were found on Saturday with crossbow wounds to their heads and bodies.
Arrows were also found jutting out of the beds and floor.
On Monday two more people shot with crossbows were found dead in a flat belonging to one of the victims found in the hotel room.
All five victims were residents in Germany and the authorities in Lower Saxony have ordered autopsies into the causes of death.
The first results are expected on Tuesday.