Father held as children found with throats slit

French police were questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two young children.

The bodies of the two children, aged five and 10, were discovered in his apartment in Saint-Priest, a southeastern suburb of the central city of Lyon.

He was arrested and placed in custody on Saturday evening. A judicial source said a knife which is thought to have been the murder weapon had been found.