Police have opened a multiple murder inquiry today after the bodies of three people were discovered in a Manchester house.
Officers were called to the house in the Fallowfield area of the city at about 7.00pm yesterday after reports there was a dead woman there.
A police forensics tent in the garden of the Manchester house where three bodies were found last night. Image: Getty Images.
They found the bodies of a woman, believed to be about 35, another woman (18) and a boy, thought to be 13. Media reports said the victims were a mother and her two children.
Police said the three bodies had serious head injuries.
Greater Manchester Police said they had launched a multiple murder inquiry.
Superintendent Paul Savill said the victims were believed to be members of the same family but had not yet been formally identified.
"We've got strong lines of inquiry," Mr Savill said. "Those positive lines of inquiry, for the integrity of the investigation, are something I won't allude to at this time."
He said they did not have any evidence of a "wider threat to the community" but said additional police patrols would be operating in the area.