Boy, 5, leads police to the bodies of his family in cave

A five-year-old boy found distressed and wandering alone led police to the bodies of his mother and brother in a cave on Tenerife.

The German woman and her 10 -year- old son were discovered on Wed n esday in the cave, and the boy’s father has since been arrested, Spain’ s Civil Guard said.

A search for the dead child and his mother began after hikers saw the five-year-old boy alone near the town of Adeje.

Speaking through a translator, he said his father had taken the family to a cave and attacked them. Spain’ s private Europa Press news agency reported. The boy said he escaped after he saw large quantities of blood.

Police arrested the 43- year-old father, who also is German, in an apartment in downtown Adeje.

He refused to say where the rest of his family was, Europa Press said. The man had reportedly moved to the island on a permanent basis. The woman and their two sons had arrived on Monday to visit.