Four children and their mother murdered in France

Police detained the children's father, 33, at his residence in a nearby town on Monday night. The prosecutor has opened a murder investigation.

Police in France on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of murdering his wife and four children in a knife attack early on Christmas Day, a public prosecutor said.

Their bodies were found on Monday night in a bloodied apartment in the town of Meaux, 40 km northeast of Paris.