Mother and two children found dead in their apartment near Lyon

They were discovered early in the afternoon after a call from relatives who had not heard from them, and a forensic doctor and investigators were still in the apartment in the middle of the afternoon trying to determine the circumstances and causes of the tragedy, these two sources close to the investigation told AFP.

A police car is on the scene, according to an AFP journalist on the scene, and the streets leading to it have been sealed off by law enforcement, according to the daily newspaper Le Progrès, which revealed the gruesome discovery.