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Police believe a father strangled his six-year-old daughter to death before ending his own life in a horrifying murder-suicide. ‌

A murder investigation is set to be launched after the child's distraught mother found her and the father dead at their home on Heathfield Terrace in Cappoge, Ireland, on Saturday night. ‌

The father, a man in his 30s who worked as a bus driver, was discovered by the stairs of the house while his daughter was found in her bedroom. Local residents recounted hearing the mother's terrifying scream and her call for the Dublin Fire Brigade, ambulance crews and Irish police (Gardaí), who arrived at the scene around 8pm. ‌

Gardaí suspect that the tragic young girl was strangled, and that the father subsequently took his own life. They do not

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