Police confirmed the homicide investigation has now broadened to involve international agencies.
Counties Manakau district crime manager Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua gave the grisly update on Thursday, while confirming the homicide investigation had broadened to involve international agencies.The remains were discovered by a family who purchased the contents of an abandoned storage locker in South Auckland at auction.
Acknowledging the update would be “extremely upsetting for the community”, Vaaelua said police believed the remains were of two children aged between five and 10 years old. “It’s still very early stages of our investigation. We’re still on a fact-finding mission and we still have a lot of unanswered questions.”Police are working on a formal identification process and Vaaelua said the priority was to contact the next of kin.
Vaaelua declined to answer whether police believed the children were related, or questions about their gender or the state of the remains.
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