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| Brother and sister were strangled | Brother and sister were strangled |
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| Two children who died after being found unconscious in a flat in Manchester were strangled, tests have revealed. | Two children who died after being found unconscious in a flat in Manchester were strangled, tests have revealed. |
| Theo Molemohi, aged two, and his four-year-old sister Yolanda Molemohi were found by their mother at the flat in Whalley Range on Wednesday. | Theo Molemohi, aged two, and his four-year-old sister Yolanda Molemohi were found by their mother at the flat in Whalley Range on Wednesday. |
| The pair were taken to hospital where they died later. | The pair were taken to hospital where they died later. |
| Their father was arrested, but is in hospital after collapsing in police custody. He was separated from the children's mother. | |
| Det Supt Geoff Wessell, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said the children had spent the weekend with their father. | |
| The children's mother found Yolanda and Theo in a bedroom with their father when she went into the flat at Whalley Road on Wednesday morning, police said. | |
| "This is a quite horrendous incident for the family and for the officers who attended," said Mr Wessell. |