Mother suspected of killing her four kids in Japan

A woman is under investigation for murder after her four children, including a girl as young as three, were found dead, Japanese police said.

Local media reported the victims were killed by their mother before she tried to take her own life.

According to police in the southern Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka, a ten-year-old boy, two six-year-old girls, and a three-year-old girl were found dead early this morning.

Police are questioning the children's 41-year-old mother as a suspect in a possible murder-suicide attempt, according to Jiji Press and public broadcaster NHK.

The mother confessed to police she had killed the children, according to TV Asahi.

The mother was sent to hospital but her injuries are not thought to be serious.