A British mother has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her two young children who were found dead in a Spanish hotel.
The woman has confessed to killing her one-year-old son and daughter aged five at the four-star Hotel Miramar in the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar, police sources said.
Her children may have been suffocated, investigators believe. Emergency services were called but paramedics could do nothing to save the lives of the children who reportedly showed no outward signs of injury.
The woman, who is in her 30s, was said to have driven to the resort – about 72km (45 miles) north-east of Barcelona – with her children on Monday evening for a few days’ holiday.
Shortly before 2pm yesterday, she called police herself to the modern, beachfront hotel, where officers found the dead youngsters.
Police said the cause of death was not known and postmortem examinations are due to be carried out tomorrow.
The mother reconstructed the tragic events in front of a judge and officers in the room before being taken to a police station this evening.
The Metro