Three children and two adults have been found dead in a house in Germany as police opened a murder probe.
The tragic discovery was made after a local spotted lifeless bodies through the window of the Senzig home, south of Berlin.
Details about the horrific incident remain few and far between, although it has been claimed that the family were in Covid quarantine at the time of their deaths, Bild reported.
According to senior Public Prosecutor Gernot Bantleon, the five dead are two adults and three children.
"The corpses had gunshot and stab wounds," he said.
The two adults are 40 and the three children are four, eight and ten-years-old.
"The homicide squad is activated because a homicide must be assumed," the spokesman continued.
It is not clear whether the dead people were a family or whether anyone else was involved in the incident.
Mr Bantleon said: “The homicide squad and forensics are at the crime scene in Senzig.
"A public prosecutor from the express service determined for capital crimes. "
This afternoon the blinds were pulled down at the house while forensic investigators were seen entering and leaving the building.
Firefighters were seen taking a pet out of the home in a box.
Police officers were seen going door-to-door along the street speaking to neighbours.
A reporter for Bild asked a man and a woman who were putting a candle near the house whether they knew the dead.
"This is a village - we know each other," the man replied.
