Children found hacked to death

A MOTHER discovered three children dead after a brutal killer beheaded one and partially decapitated two others at an apartment in Baltimore, Maryland.

Two people including a teenager were arrested and were being questioned by detectives in connection with the killings of the nine-year-old sisters and a 10-year-old boy.

The woman who made the gruesome discovery was believed to be the mother of at least one of the children.

Police received a call from the woman who told the operator: “There’s blood all over my apartment. They’ve killed my family.”

The children were found dead shortly after they had returned home from school.

Even hardened police officers were shocked by the brutality of the crime scene in north west Baltimore.

The man being questioned was described by police as “a person of interest only”. He has not been charged and police said he was co-operating.

Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Blackwell said police were also “looking elsewhere”, suggesting there may be more suspects. Officers were also trying to establish whether the apartment had been broken into.