Emergency crews find child, two, and bodies of woman and man in Burton-on-Trent house

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Emergency crews have discovered the bodies of two adults and an unharmed two-year-old child after being called to a house in Staffordshire.

Detectives in Burton-on-Trent said they were investigating the unexplained deaths of a 32-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman.

Emergency services had been called to the house on Henhurst Hill at about 11.05pm on Wednesday.

Staffordshire police said: “The deaths are being treated as unexplained at this time and postmortems will take place in due course. Formal identification has not yet taken place.

“A cordon is in place as forensic inquiries continue and detectives work to establish the circumstances around the deaths. Local neighbourhood officers will be in the area today completing door-to-door inquiries and providing reassurance to the local community.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact 101. Alternatively, information can be passed anonymously to the Crimestoppers service on 0800 555 111.