The Niagara Falls Review

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A woman in Kitchener, Ont., killed her four-year-old daughter and then took her own life, police said Thursday.

Police found the bodies of Joanna Nowakowska, 38, and her daughter Bianca, 4, in an apartment in the southweste­rn Ontario city on Monday night.

At the time, police said they weren’t seeking suspects.

On Thursday morning, cops confirmed the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide.

“As the a result of a postmortem ... detectives are attributin­g the death of the child to the intentiona­l actions of her mother,” police said in a news release.

— QMI Agency

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