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CALIFORNIA (US): A man has been arrested after eight children and a woman were found dead in a house in California.

Police arrived at the property to find nine bodies stacked and intertwined in a pile of clothes, along with 10 coffins.

The Victims

The victims were seven children ranging in age from one to eight, a 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl.

All were thought to be the children of Marcus Wesson, 57, who surrendered to police after walking out of the house covered in blood.

Touching Scenes

The scene caused even veteran officers to cry. Police Chief Jerry Dyer wiped tears from his eyes as officers carried the bodies from the home, cradling the youngest ones in their arms.

"I've been with the Fresno Police Department for 25 years, and I've never experienced anything of this nature," he said. Dyer said the victims might have been killed in some sort of ritual.

He declined to say how they died. But he said the scene was so gruesome that some of the first officers into the house had to be placed on administrative leave and given counselling.