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| Murder hunt as four bodies found | Murder hunt as four bodies found |
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| Police have launched a murder inquiry after a family of four was found dead at a house in Newcastle. | |
| The family - two adults and a girl aged about nine and a boy aged about five - were found in Hawthorn Gardens on Tuesday morning. | |
| Police are trying to trace a man who was a "regular visitor" to the house and was there on Tuesday morning. | Police are trying to trace a man who was a "regular visitor" to the house and was there on Tuesday morning. |
| Another property less than a mile away in Rydal Road, Gosforth, was sealed off but no-one was found at the address. | Another property less than a mile away in Rydal Road, Gosforth, was sealed off but no-one was found at the address. |
| Chief Inspector Alan Brown, of Northumbria Police said: "Just before 0900 GMT on Tuesday we received a call of an incident at Hawthorn Gardens. | |
| "We have information that a male visited the premises at some time this morning before the incident and inquiries are ongoing to trace this man." |