Four found dead at Hampshire house

Four bodies, including those of two young girls, have been found at a house in Hampshire.

Police were called to Provost Street in the New Forest village of Fordingbridge at 11.20am.

There they discovered the body of a man, a woman and the girls, aged one and two.

Emergency staff sent to the house found the woman and the two girls, with stab wounds and the man hanged, the local ambulance service said.

The emergency call came into South Central Ambulance Service at 11.19am.

An ambulance, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and a doctor specialising in emergency medicine were dispatched to Fordingbridge.