The father of a family found dead in a home outside Berlin at the weekend, is thought to have been responsible for the crime, investigators said on Monday.

A suicide note pointed to the 40-year-old as the culprit, according to a statement by the police and the public prosecutor’s office.

The man was found dead on Saturday alongside his 40-year-old wife and three children, aged 4, 8, and 10, in the town of Koenigs Wusterhausen.

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There were no signs of forced entry into the house, and no signs of a fight or the presence of third parties at the time of the crime, the statement said.

The autopsy of the five bodies would take several days, investigators said.