A refugee father has been arrested under suspicion of throwing his three children from a window

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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.

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