Bodies of mother and ‘her young son and daughter’ are found at a home in Dublin
- Bodies of two children, aged between 6 and 11, and a woman were found today
- Gardai are working the scene of their death in Ballinteer, South Dublin
- Officers are said to have become concerned for the wellbeing of the people inside the house and broke in to the property this morning
The bodies of a mother and her two young children have been found at a home in Dublin.
Gardai have sealed off a property on the Llewelyn estate in Ballinteer, South Dublin, where the bodies were found.
The victims are a woman, said to be the children’s mother, and a young boy and girl, both aged between six and 11, the Irish Post reports.
Members of Garda Siochana (Irish Police) patrol Dublin city centre last year. Gardai are at a property in Dublin today investigating the deaths of a woman and her two children
‘Gardaí are currently at the scene of an incident at a residential property in South Dublin where the bodies of two children and an adult have been discovered,’ Garda Headquarters told the Irish Times in a statement.
‘There is no further information available at this time.’
Officers are said to have broken into the property after neighbours reported they were concerned for the mother and children inside earlier this morning.
The Irish Times confirmed the woman was married and lived with her children at the property.
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