Murder inquiry begins after death of woman and two children in Kettering

Man arrested on suspicion of murder; children who died understood to have been aged four and six

A murder investigation has been launched after the deaths of a woman and two children, understood to have been aged four and six, in Kettering, police have said.

Northamptonshire police said they were called to a house on Petherton Court at 11.15am on Thursday where a woman and two children - a boy and a girl - were found with serious injuries. Paramedics and police officers treated them at the scene but the woman was pronounced dead and the two children died in hospital.