- The three bodies were found this morning in Huétor Tájar, a town near Granada
Tragedy has struck a small Spanish town after a pensioner killed his two grandchildren aged 10 and 13 before shooting himself, two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident while he was driving.
Police surrounded the 72-year-old’s home after he barricaded himself on the property last night with the youths.
Their three bodies were found this morning around 8.30 am in different rooms of the house in Huétor Tájar – a town of about 10,000 inhabitants, near the city of Granada, in southern Spain – when armed agents entered by force.
Sources close to the investigation have said one of the children had gunshot wounds and they believed the other may have been suffocated.
Civil Guard investigators work with the theory that the pensioner shot himself with the same firearm that it is believed he used on one of his grandchildren after ending the life of the other child.
Tragedy has struck a small Spanish town after a pensioner killed his two grandchildren aged 10 and 13 before shooting himself, two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident while he was driving. In the photo: The police are seen at the scene of the events in Huetor Tajar.
This morning it emerged that the man was driving a car that crashed into a wall at the entrance to a highway tunnel on March 19.
His wife and daughter, mother of the two children found dead this morning, lost their fight for life after being rescued from the rubble and rushed to hospital.
The young people were also in the car that crashed. One of them is believed to have suffered a broken leg in the accident and was still wearing a cast.
The mayor of Huétor Tájar, Fernando Delgado, has declared three days of mourning in the municipality and suspended the last day of a local festival.
He said in a statement: “We would like to convey our grief at this time and offer all our support and condolences to the families of those affected.”
The alarm went off yesterday shortly before 10:00 p.m.
Specialist police negotiators and an elite unit of Madrid’s Civil Guard were mobilized after receiving reports that a man with a licensed hunting rifle had barricaded himself in his home with his grandchildren.
He is said to have argued with his son-in-law, who was being treated by doctors for shock today, before the police were alerted.
Local reports said the grandfather told police around 5am this morning that he would stop talking to them because he had to get the children ready for school soon.
The armed officers decided to force their way onto the property after the young men and their grandfather did not show up at the scheduled time they were expected to leave for school.
The incident comes after a 35-year-old Romanian man killed his two daughters, aged just four and two, in the southeastern Spanish province of Almeria in March.
The man poisoned the children with pesticide before swallowing the same toxic substance to take his own life.
The children’s 23-year-old mother, who was separated from their father, raised the alarm after going to pick them up and finding them dead in bed.
At the end of April 2021, a Spaniard allegedly killed his two daughters in Tenerife in a case that shocked the world.
Tomás Gimeno is believed to have committed suicide after murdering his daughters and throwing their bodies into the Atlantic Ocean.
Their eldest daughter Olivia, six, was found in a sports bag tied to an anchor more than 3,000 feet underwater on the ocean floor off the holiday island on June 10.
A holdall in which the body of Olivia’s one-year-old sister Anna was placed before being thrown off Gimeno’s boat is believed to have been found empty and she is still missing along with the alleged double killer.
A judge investigating the disappearance of the trio on April 27, 2021 later accused Gimeno of killing his children and leaving their bodies where he did in a “planned and premeditated manner to cause inhuman pain to his ex-partner.”
In the photo: The house is in Huetor Tajar, near the city of Granada, in southern Spain.
Gimeno disappeared with his daughters after picking them up from his ex on an arranged visit.
Her mother, Beatriz Zimmerman, wrote a heartbreaking letter after Olivia’s body was found, accusing her ex-partner of the “most monstrous act a person can commit” by killing her own “innocent children.”
Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodríguez was among celebrities who used their social media accounts to highlight the girls’ disappearance in the days after they disappeared, while their mother posted photos and videos of them online in a bid to that his photos were published so well all over the world. -sympathizers would recognize them and alert the authorities.
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