The decomposed bodies of five children aged between two and eight were found stuffed into rubbish bags near a logging road in Alabama after their father confessed to killing them and led police to the scene, authorities said.

A US man is suspected of killing his five children and then driving for hours before dumping their bodies on a rural dirt road, authorities said.

The US ambassador in charge of counterterrorism said today that parts of Pakistan are a “safe haven” for militants and that Osama bin Laden was more likely to be hiding there than in Afghanistan.