Mother, 37, is arrested on suspicion of murder

A mother is being held on suspicion of murder after her two children were found dying at their seaside home this morning.

Police made the grisly discovery after the 37-year-old woman was pulled from the wreckage of a crash on a dual carriageway at 2.50am.

Officers who drove her home found two dying children, believed to be a two-year-old girl and her elder sister.

The youngsters were taken to hospital around 3.35am where doctors battled to save their lives, but both were declared dead shortly after arriving.

Last night their mother was being quizzed about the double deaths after being released from hospital into police custody.

Neighbours said the mother had only just moved into the £215,000 property on a new-build estate in Westwood near Margate, Kent.

Police were called in the early hours of thismorning when she crashed into the back of a lorry on the A299 near the popular seaside town of Whitstable.

The mother managed to escape with minor injuries despite the impact causing her car bonnet to completely crumple. 

In a social media post, a witness to the crash said it looked as though the woman was ‘deliberately trying to do damage to herself’.

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