International manhunt on after 4 bodies found in Manchester

London, Aug 21 (UNI) Police have launched an international manhunt after a mother and her three children were found murdered in a house near Manchester.

Detectives suspect Rehman Arshad, 36, a taxi driver, behind the murder and is trying to trace him.

The bodies of the woman and her three children, two boys and a girl aged between five and 11, were found by the police at a house in Cheadle Hulme, near Manchester.

Police forces across Britain have been put on alert to try and trace Mr Arshad while the Greater Manchester Police are also in contact with forces abroad.

Officers were called to the property yesterday evening and forced entry into the house, after receiving reports expressing concern for the welfare of the occupants, the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.

A spokeswoman for GMP said, ''Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding this incident are going on.'' Neighbours said the house was owned by an Asian family while one of them said an Asian man, a taxi driver, lived there with his wife and children.

Winifred Lomax, 74, a retired shop worker who lives across the road, said the family had only recently moved in. But no one had seen them for at least the last three weeks. ''They had not been seen for a few weeks and someone looked through their letterbox and there was a nasty smell,'' he said.

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