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| Tenerife cave: Son leads police to bodies of mother and brother | Tenerife cave: Son leads police to bodies of mother and brother |
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| Spanish police have found the bodies of a German woman and her 10-year-old son in a cave on the island of Tenerife and have arrested the boy's father. | Spanish police have found the bodies of a German woman and her 10-year-old son in a cave on the island of Tenerife and have arrested the boy's father. |
| Spanish media say the couple's other son, aged five, had been wandering in the mountains near Adeje, muddy and crying. Some locals who found him alerted police on Tuesday. | Spanish media say the couple's other son, aged five, had been wandering in the mountains near Adeje, muddy and crying. Some locals who found him alerted police on Tuesday. |
| The search was difficult as the area has many caves. The German father was arrested at his apartment. | The search was difficult as the area has many caves. The German father was arrested at his apartment. |
| The victims appear to have been beaten. | The victims appear to have been beaten. |
| Officials are treating it as a case of domestic violence. The father is reported to be resident in Tenerife's Adeje district. The Canary Islands are especially popular with German and UK tourists. | Officials are treating it as a case of domestic violence. The father is reported to be resident in Tenerife's Adeje district. The Canary Islands are especially popular with German and UK tourists. |
| Sources quoted by Spain's El País daily say the mother had arrived on Tenerife with the boys on Monday to visit the father. | Sources quoted by Spain's El País daily say the mother had arrived on Tenerife with the boys on Monday to visit the father. |
| El País says the cave was found after a long search in mountain mist - the clue was a wristwatch found by a path. | El País says the cave was found after a long search in mountain mist - the clue was a wristwatch found by a path. |
| The paper quotes sources as saying the father was aggressive and refused to give police any information about his partner and sons. | |
| "It is suspected murder," a spokeswoman for the local police (Guardia Civil) told the BBC. | |
| The father is being held at a police station in Playa de las Americas, near Adeje, and will probably go before an investigating judge on Friday, she said. | |
| She declined to give any further details about the case. | |
| A woman called Rosi told Spanish media how she had found the five-year-old boy "tired and all red-faced". | |
| In a video clip on La Vanguardia news website she said the boy "gripped my hand, as he was anxious". | |
| Unable to understand German, Rosi said she fetched a friend, who then translated the boy's story. "He said he had escaped, run away." |