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		</div><p>A mother screamed for help <em>“like she was being tortured”</em> at a home where a one-year-old girl and a boy aged three were stabbed to death, a neighbour has said.</p>
<p>The children were killed in the <em>“devastating and horrific”</em> attack in Ilford, east London, as police and the air ambulance went to the scene at about 5.30pm on Sunday.</p>
<p>A 40-year-old man who was known to the children is fighting for his life in hospital after suffering knife wounds, Scotland Yard said, adding detectives have launched a murder investigation but are not looking for anyone else over the killings.</p>
<p>A newsagent worker named locally as Nithin Kumar, known as Nithi, lives at the property with his wife Nisa and two young children, reporters were told.</p>
<p>His boss Shanmugathas Thevadurai told reporters at the CVS store about two miles from the scene: <em>“He’s my staff. Yesterday he was working here normally, he came and opened the shop and finished around 4pm.”</em></p>
<p>He added that he did not believe it when he went to the house and saw police and ambulances.</p>
<p>Mr Thevadurai, 54, said he hired Mr Kumar eight years ago after he lost his job at Tesco, and called him a <em>“hard-working, honest person”</em> who had a <em>“shy”</em> disposition but was<em> “very polite and friendly with customers”</em> and would sometimes call his family on the phone at work.</p>
<p>The toddler died at the scene in Aldborough Road North, which is just yards from a day nursery, while the boy died later in hospital, Scotland Yard said.</p>
<p>A mother-of-two who lives across the road and gave her name as Reshna told the PA news agency: <em>“I heard a woman screaming ‘Help me’.</em></p>
<p><em>“It sounded like she was being tortured. I knew something horrible must have happened, it went on for about 10 minutes.”</em></p>
<p>The neighbour said she later saw medics carrying a <em>“little body”</em> in a bag outside.</p>
<p>She added: <em>“My heart just sank, it’s devastating, horrific. From a mother’s perspective – I’m still shaken from it, I can’t imagine what she feels at the moment.”</em></p>
<p>Police were seen patrolling a cordon encircling two newsagents attached to some flats in the quiet residential road off the A12 on Monday.</p>
<p>Two small toy rabbits, one blue and one white and pink, were left at the scene with a note saying: <em>“Little angels, we are so sorry. Rest in Peace.”</em></p>
<p>Several neighbours said the family were of Sri Lankan descent.</p>
<p>Neighbour Intisar Ahmed said they had lived there for around two years and that she saw a police officer take one of the injured children outside and attempt CPR.</p>
<p>She said: <em>“I was so, so upset. I couldn’t believe it, the baby on the floor and the policeman trying first aid.</em></p>
<p><em>“I saw them put him on the floor and it looks like they had taken the clothes off. I could hear the mother screaming.”</em></p>
<p>A Scotland Yard spokesman said: <em>“The children’s next of kin have been informed.</em></p>
<p><em>“A 40-year-old man was also taken to hospital and is in a critical condition; officers remain in attendance at the hospital.</em></p>
<p><em>“It is believed that all parties involved were known to each other; all three had suffered knife injuries.</em></p>
<p><em>“Although no formal arrest has been made, at this early stage, police are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.”</em></p>
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