A young mother is to be charged with murder after her twin three-year-old daughters were hacked to death with a samurai sword.

In horrific details about the double murder and attempted suicide, investigators say Monica McCarrick killed the little girls and then propped their bodies against the front door of the apartment in a bid to prevent rescuers from getting in.

Firefighters made the grim discovery of the girls, Lily and Tori, after being called last week to a fire in a flat where they lived with McCarrick.

The 28-year-old was found near the bodies of the twins with a self-inflicted sword wound to the throat. She will be charged with murder after being released from hospital.

Investigators said the head of one of the girls had almost been decapitated. The other suffered multiple stab wounds to the stomach.

McCarrick then set fire to the flat in Fairfield, California, and placed the lifeless bodies of her daughters against the front door before trying to kill herself.

Neighbours had desperately tried to force their way into the flat after noticing smoke seeping from under the front door and smoke alarms going off.


Scene of horror: An investigator carries a bundle from inside the burned apartment where the bodies of the two little girls were found




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