A British woman was being questioned by police tonight after her two children were found dead in a Spanish hotel room.
The two toddlers were found in a room in the Hotel Miramar in the resort of Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava this afternoon.
A Girona Police spokesman said: "At around 3.53pm, the mossos de la comissaria de Blanes (local police) received a note from the local police of Lloret de Mar that the bodies of two minors had been found at a hotel.
"When the officers arrived at the scene they found two children inside a room at a hotel.
"Girona Police are investigating the death of the two children.
"The police have detained the mother of the minors to find out what happened." Newspaper El Mundo said on its website the woman had phoned police but the children, aged between one and five, could not be saved.
The cause of death was unknown, a police spokeswoman said.
The British Embassy in Madrid said an investigation had been launched into the deaths. It said it was trying to establish whether the family was on holiday in Spain or living in the country.
"We are in contact with the Spanish police but because the children are minors we cannot say much," a spokesman said.
Lloret de Mar, some 80km north of Barcelona, is popular with British tourists.
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