Police ID 18-month-old Pa. twins apparently killed by their mother

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials have identified 18-month-old twins they say appear to have been suffocated by their mother, who may have tried to kill her 4-year-old daughter and herself inside the family’s Philadelphia home.

Police on Friday identified the toddlers as Adam and Eve Smalls. They were pronounced dead inside their Northeast Philadelphia home on Thursday after officials received a 911 call.

A police spokesman says the woman told officers she had harmed her children.

Authorities say a 4-year-old girl at the home was given some kind of prescription before the mother cut her own wrists.

The older girl was hospitalized. The tots’ bodies were carried from the home, wrapped in white cloth.

Investigators say the woman is being questioned but her name was not released today because no charges had been filed.