{"id":494854,"date":"2025-10-13T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:46:16","slug":"boy-and-girl-2-and-3-found-dead-in-stafford-house-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494854\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy and girl, 2 and 3, found dead in Stafford house named"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tragedy unfolded this morning at a property on Corporation StreetA murder investigation has been launched<\/p>\n

A girl and a boy who were tragically found dead in Stafford this morning have been named by police tonight.<\/p>\n

Meraj Ul Zahra, aged two, and Abdul Momin Alfaateh, aged three, were both pronounced dead at a property in Corporation Street this morning.<\/p>\n

Police had been called to the address by ambulance workers, who had found the children unresponsive with injuries, at around 7.30am, according to Staffordshire<\/a> Police.<\/p>\n

Read more <\/strong>Two children from same primary school tragically die within hours of each other<\/a><\/p>\n

The children’s next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.<\/p>\n

The force asked the public to respect the family privacy at this difficult time.<\/p>\n

A 43-year-old woman, from the Stafford area, who was arrested on suspicion of murder today, remains in custody tonight as investigations continue.<\/p>\n

A general view of Corporation Street, where emergency services were called(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

The incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) as is routine following earlier police contact.<\/p>\n

A police cordon remains in place on Corporation Street tonight.<\/p>\n

Staffordshire Police has asked anyone with any information that could help the investigation to get in touch by calling 101, or via Live Chat on the force’s website, quoting incident number 147 of 12 October.<\/p>\n

To report anonymously, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tragedy unfolded this morning at a property on Corporation StreetA murder investigation has been launched A girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,604,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-494854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-staffordshire","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115364101824635311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}