Woman suspected of killing partner's children

Fire fighters were called to a house fire on Friday where they discovered the bodies of two of the children, aged four and twelve. The ten-year-old was still alive, but died in hospital later. According to the local Ruhr Nachrichten paper, all three showed signs of having been violently attacked, and a post-mortem showed that the two discovered dead had died of injuries unrelated to the blaze. Police in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, arrested the unnamed woman on Friday. A motive is not yet clear. Their father, a 41-year-old whose wife died in an accident nearly three years before, was not a suspect, the Dortmund state prosecutor said on Saturday. He was seen outside the house being comforted by neighbours.

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