Father 'has killed' Swiss twins

The father of the missing Swiss twins wrote to his estranged wife saying he had killed them and intended to kill himself, police have said.

Matthias Kaspar Schepp wrote in a February 3 letter from Italy that six-year-olds Alessia and Livia were dead and he would now kill himself, and his body was found later that day, police from the Swiss canton (state) of Vaud said.