Two youngsters, aged 11 and 7, have died at a home in Stoke prompting a homicide probe after a girl stabbed a person at a automotive wash. 

The kids, who had been discovered "unresponsive" at a home in Flax Street and had been later pronounced lifeless, had been an 11-year-old boy and a seven-year-old woman.

A lady, aged 49 and from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested on suspicion of homicide. She is believed to associated to the 2 victims.

The discovery of the kids got here after police attended studies of an altercation at GB Hand Car Wash in Campbell Road in Stoke on Sunday afternoon. A person in his 40s was stabbed and brought to hospital and has now been launched.

Police later went to the home in Flax Street, discovering the injured youngsters and a girl, the kids sadly died.

A police spokesman mentioned: "We were first called to a car wash on Campbell Road at 2.04pm after a man was stabbed. He was later taken to hospital by paramedics but has since been released.

"Officers then went to a house on Flax Street and arrested a 49-year-old lady from Stoke-on-Trent in reference to the stabbing. While we had been on the deal with, two youngsters had been discovered unresponsive with vital accidents inside. Sadly, regardless of the most effective efforts of paramedics, each of them died on the scene."

Staffordshire Police have referred to as within the Independent Office for Police Conduct because of 'latest police conduct'.