EXPERTS EXAMINE CHILDREN'S BODIES

Child abuse investigators are leading the inquiry into the deaths of a girl less than six months old and a boy under six.

Post-mortem examinations will be carried out on the pair later today, police said.

The children's bodies were found in a flat in Thornton Heath, south London, after police were called to an incident in the Brigstock Road area on Saturday morning.

Two adults were arrested when a bus driver called officers to an incident involving them and a three-year-old girl.

After making the arrests, officers rushed to a house in nearby Melfort Road where they found the dead children.

A 25-year-old woman arrested in connection with the pair's deaths was detained last night under the Mental Health Act. A 62-year-old man has been released on bail to return to a south London police station in June.

The child the couple were with when they were arrested was taken to hospital with several undisclosed injuries and remains in a south London hospital in a stable condition.

Superintendent Chris Bourlet of Croydon Police said: "Clearly this is a tragic set of circumstances. We are doing our best to investigate what has happened here."

He said police were treating the deaths as a "suspicious incident". The relationships between the adults and the children is still being investigated.