Tragedy as grandfather kills grandchildren in murder-suicide

A Spanish pensioner has killed his two grandchildren aged 10 and 13 before shooting himself dead – two months after his wife and daughter died in a car accident while he was driving.

Police surrounded the 72-year-old man’s house after he barricaded himself in the property last night with the youngsters.

Their three bodies were found this morning around 8.30am in different rooms of the house in Huetor Tajar, a town of around 10,000 inhabitants, near the southern Spanish city of Granada when armed officers forced their way in.

Sources close to the investigation have said one of the children had gunshot wounds and they believed the other could have been suffocated.

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