Three young children from South Africa allegedly murdered in New Zealand

In a brief news conference, police said the investigation was in its early stages and they could not yet release many details, including the names of the children or how they died

Police search the driveway of a house where three children were found dead in the South Island town of Timaru, New Zealand. Picture: New Zealand Herald/AP

The deaths of three young children who had just migrated from South Africa to New Zealand are being treated as murders, police said.

Police said they were not looking for any possible suspects beyond those allegedly involved in the incident late on Thursday at a home in the South Island town of Timaru, some 100 miles south west of Christchurch.