Gardaí are likely to seek charges today against Sanjeev Chada in connection with the murder of his children, Eoghan and Ruairi.

Community figures close to the extended Chada family in Co Carlow are perplexed at how Sanjeev Chada’s financial troubles may have triggered his extreme behaviour, ending in the death of his two children.

The two boys whose bodies were found in the boot of their father’s car are expected to be buried in their home village at the weekend.

Gardaí believe staff at petrol stations, shops, food outlets, and B&Bs may have spotted Sanjeev Chada or his car in the 20-hour period he went missing with his two sons.

Sanjeev Chada was “deeply loved” by his wife Kathleen, regarded locally as a friendly, gentle, quiet man who was extremely close to his two sons.

Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Slain brothers Eoghan and Ruairi Chada were curled up beside each other and looked like they were asleep when gardaí opened the boot of the car driven by their father Sanjeev.

Gardaí were last night waiting to question a man in connection with the death of his two children after a nationwide search for them.

Relatives were last night trying to comfort Kathleen Chada, the devastated mother of Eoghan, 10, and Ruairi, 5, whose bodies were discovered just hours after gardaí issued a major alert in a bid to establish their whereabouts.

Gardaí are appealing for the public's help in tracing the movements of the car in which the bodies of two young brothers were discovered in Co Mayo.

Two men acquitted of murdering honeymooner Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius have expressed joy and relief as their lawyers insisted the real culprit could still be found.

Two men acquitted of murdering honeymooner Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius tonight expressed joy and relief as their lawyers insisted the real culprit could still be found.

Police paid tribute today to an officer who helped save hundreds of people on his remote island in India during the tsunami disaster, then was swept away while trying to help one last person, an old woman who asked him to retrieve her handbag.

Three days after India’s strongest quake in 50 years, the open courtyard of Ahmedabad’s biggest hospital resembled a makeshift ward in a battle zone.