EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A man was in custody Monday, the day after two children who were under government supervision were found dead in an Edmonton, Alberta, home, police said.
The names of the young boy and girl and the 31-year-old man, who had non-life threatening injuries, were not being released pending autopsies on the children, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Edmonton police found the children's bodies after being called to a townhouse at 11:30 p.m. Sunday to check on the welfare of its occupants, the CBC said.
The Edmonton Sun reported a Children and Youth Services spokesman said the children were "under our care" when they were killed.
"It is very sad, a tragedy," Sam Tarabain, a neighbor, said.
"They have not been here long. My children have not played with them".
Another neighbor, Patricia Antony, said the family had seemed peculiar, the newspaper said.
"They never used the front door and covered the windows, I've never seen them," Antony said.
"This is the first time something like this has happened. We have had small things but never a situation like this". UPI
