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A refugee father has been arrested for attempted murder in Germany after allegedly throwing his three children from a window at their emergency accommodation centre.

Police received an emergency call in Lohmar in the west of Germany on Monday from a man who said he saw the children falling one by one from the first-floor window of the asylum seekers centre.

When medics reached the scene they found two of the children with serious injuries and they were both helicoptered to a nearby hospital.

A third child, aged one, was returned to his mother after treatment for light injuries after being kept overnight in hospital for observation.

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A refugee father has been arrested for attempted murder in Germany after allegedly throwing his three children from a window at their accommodation centre (picture shows a different migrant centre in Germany)

The severely injured – a five-year-old boy and his sister, seven, suffered severe head and internal trauma.

The father, a Syrian aged 35, was arrested at the scene.

A special police squad has been formed to probe the incident – one of a rising number of violent crimes among refugee families,

'The man offered no resistance during his arrest,' said Police spokesman Stefan Birk.

The accommodation centre was declared a crime scene and cordoned off and the 30 people living in the house – a former Chinese restaurant – moved elsewhere.

The Syrian family lived in a large apartment on the first floor along with other asylum seekers.

Several families shared the bathroom a kitchen.

Aid workers have complained in recent weeks that a lack of space and privacy in the centres across Germany sparked violent confrontations and even abuse of children and women.

Police received an emergency call in Lohmar in the west of Germany from a man who said he saw the children falling one by one from the first-floor window of the asylum seekers centre

Cologne is promising a zero tolerance response for anyone who committing offences when the carnival season kicks off there at the weekend after the excesses of New Year's Eve in the city, when women were subjected to mass sexual assaults and robbery from hundreds of immigrant men

Following on from the excesses of New Year's Eve in Cologne, when women were subjected to mass sexual assaults and robbery from hundreds of immigrant men, the city is promising zero tolerance for anyone who commits such offences again when the carnival season kicks off there at the weekend.

'Everyone should be able to celebrate carnival in Cologne without danger,' mayor Henriette Reker said.

'Cologne is taking action to prevent a repeat of New Year's Eve.

'The global public will be watching very closely to see how Cologne manages this challenge.'

But both she and new police chief Jürgen Mathies said there was no such thing as 100 percent security