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Road is sealed after bodies found Bodies find 'treated as murder'
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Two bodies have been discovered in Derby, police have confirmed. Police have launched a murder investigation after the discovery of two bodies in a Derby house.
Officers were called to a house on Moore Street in Normanton earlier on Tuesday afternoon. It was sealed off and it has remained closed since.Officers were called to a house on Moore Street in Normanton earlier on Tuesday afternoon. It was sealed off and it has remained closed since.
No further details of the victims have been released. Householders on the residential street said they were shocked by the news. Detectives said a friend of the occupant had visited the house and alerted the police, who are treating the deaths as suspicious.
Detectives said this was a major investigation and the road would stay closed while it was carried out. A forensic search of the house is expected to continue tomorrow.
A Derbyshire Police spokesman said: "Police were called to a property in Moore Street where the bodies of two people were found. Det Supt David Cooper said: "The bodies of a man and a woman were found just before 3pm by a friend of the occupant of the house who was visiting. That friend called police.
"Police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths." "From what we have seen at the scene we are satisfied that this is suspicious. We are treating it as a murder investigation".
Householders on the terraced residential street said they were shocked by the news.