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Dad drowns his kids and sets them alight before suicide

The depressed man was rumoured to be separating from his wife and the murders have shocked Getafe, outside Madrid

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Friday, 23 March 2018, 13:53

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The dormitory town of Getafe, near Madrid, is in mourning this week after a seemingly mild-mannered father carried out the double murder of his children before committing suicide on nearby railtracks.

Forty-six-year-old José Alberto Gálvez López was found dead on the line on Tuesday evening and the discovery was quickly linked to an ongoing incident elsewhere in the town where firefighters had been called to a small fire inside a ground floor flat.

On gaining entry, they realised it was a mattress on fire. The grim discovery of the two young children of Gálvez, aged 13 and 8, on the bed was then made. A preliminary autopsy appeared to show that the children had been drowned first.

A note found on the body of the father, who was said to be suffering from depression, said, It was me. I killed my kids. I don't want then to suffer.

The children's devastated mother denied the couple were planning to separate. According to sources she said, Apart from losing his mind, my husband had no apparent motive to kill them.

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