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After finding five bodies in a residential building in Radevormwald, the police assume a homicide within the family.
According to previous investigations, the father of the family killed his wife, the two one and four year old daughters and his 77 year old mother-in-law.
The police announced this on Saturday afternoon.
The identification service had started work on Friday evening.
According to a dpa photographer, forensic agents and fire investigators were on site.
The site of the accident was cordoned off over a large area.
The fire brigade extinguished the fire and moved back after a two-hour fire-fighting operation, said a fire brigade spokesman.
The scene of the fire had been handed over to the police.
Fire brigade could "do nothing more"
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At 5 p.m., an emergency call was received that a house was on fire.
During the extinguishing work, the emergency services came across the five bodies.
At around 7.30 p.m., the fire brigade had withdrawn.
There was "nothing left to do".
A forensics officer investigates a fire in front of a residential building in Radevormwald
Source: dpa / Christoph Reichwein
The dpa photographer said that the windows of the house were broken, but no strong traces of fire could be seen.
A police spokesman said the house was accessible.
The white, elongated house with a ground floor and a partially developed attic is located on a main road on the outskirts of Radevormwald in the Herbeck district.