3 boys found dead in home

THREE boys aged 3, 9 and 14 have been found dead at a home for disabled children in north-western Spain and a woman who worked there has been taken into custody.

Cecilio Vadillo, of the interior ministry in the Castilla-Leon region, said the children were found yesterday morning after police were summoned to the home in the town of Boecillo.

He said police found the three special needs children and a 55-year-old woman who worked at the home with cuts to the head and wrist that could be consistent with a suicide attempt. Vadillo said she is in custody at a hospital but has not been arrested, and the cause of the deaths is being investigated.

The newspaper El Pais quoted investigators as saying they were suffocated.