Mystery as three hotel guests found shot dead with crossbows at guesthouse in Bavaria

THREE hotel guests have been found dead after they were shot with crossbows at a guesthouse in Bavaria, Germany, on Saturday.

Police are now probing their deaths after employees of a hotel in the town of Passau found the bodies in the room.

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Two crossbows were reportedly found in the room by police when officers searched the scene[/caption]

Police said the three victims included a 53-year-old man and two women aged 33 and 30, all of them German citizens.

Local media reports said the victims had booked a triple room on Friday for a three-day stay in the town of Passau.

Two crossbows were reportedly found in the room by police when officers searched the scene in the remote riverside hotel near the Austrian border.

A police statement said: “At present, the reasons for the death of the three people are still completely open.

“There are currently no indications of possible involvement of other persons.”

According to local newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, a police spokesperson said the women were not the man’s daughters.

A junior manager who first alerted the police, told German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost: “In the room of the dead people there were two crossbows.”

They said it is not clear what their relationship was, what happened inside the hotel room or how exactly the three people died.

A vehicle has been seized by detectives.

Local news agency DPA has reported that a post-mortem has been ordered and will be carried out early next week.

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Police said the three victims included a 53-year-old man and two women aged 33 and 30, all of them German citizens[/caption]

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A post-mortem has reportedly been ordered and will be carried out early next week[/caption]