Hameln

Police in Hameln said they were treating Sunday evening’s incident as an attempted killing.

Although Mr. Pommerening said a new apartment had been found for her and her children, the family moved this month to a larger nearby town, Hameln.

This is not the first time that Hamelin in Lower Saxony - called Hameln in Germany - has struggled with rats in recent years.

Legend of the Pied Piper.—Hameln is famed as the scene of the myth of the piper of Hameln.

“We don’t want that,” Merkel told members of her Christian Democratic Union today in Hameln, Germany.