Three children found dead at home in Bristol were just seven, three and ten-months old
statement but I won’t be taking any additional questions at this time I’d like to start by saying that this is a terrible and deeply distressing tragedy in which three young children have lost their lives I thought some very much with the children’s loved ones who are going through deal.
we were first called by a member of the public who is concerned for the welfare of the occupants early on Sunday the 18th of February officers arrived at about 12:40 a.m. and find two or three children whose lives could not be saved forensic Coast more to examinations will now be carried out on the children to establish the course of death and it is important that we don’t give further detail on this until the proper processes have been carried the post mortem examinations are not likely to be completed until the middle to the end of this week at the earliest formal identification has not yet taken place but we believe the victims are a boy age seven a girl of three then next to kin has been informed and are being given all of the help and support
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Three children found dead at home in Bristol were just seven, three and ten-months old
that they need by specialist family a 42 year old woman was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital due to injuries that she has sustained her condition is not life threatening if she remains custody of this uniform officers from neighbourhood precin teams will be in the area in the coming days provide reassurance and support so the local community so please do speak to us if you have any concerns it’s important to stress that we are treating this as an isolated incident and we do not believe that any ongoing risk in the wider community we’ve been humbled at the community response to this tragedy as a time of great sadness and disbelief we’ve seen spontaneous acts of care and support within hours of the incident hurray a local church was opened up to people to gather anymore this is what being in a community is all about and we’d like to thank those who continue to offer important and selfless the death of sexual children is a great shock to the whole community and this incident has had a profound and deep Impact on all of us in the police will be making sure that all of those involved in the response and the subsequent investigation are given any welfare support that they may need I know people will be eager to have answers for the major crime investigation team are in the very early stages of what would be a highly sensitive complex will take time to establish all of the banks we anticipate that we will need to take out some further inquiries at the scene for the rest of the week and there will be supported in place while we do this
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