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Bx. boys stabbed to death

Joe Marino, Larry Celona, Seven Vago and Patrick Reilly

Two children were apparently stabbed to death in a Bronx apartment Saturday night, and the boys’ mother is in police custody as a person of interest, cops said.

The kids, one 3 years old and the other 11 months, were each found with “multiple stab wounds” to the neck and torso in an apartment building at 246 Echo Place in Mount Hope just before 8 p.m., Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie said.

Before the children were found, their 22-year-old mother had been taken into custody, when police were called at around 7:20 p.m. to the apartment on a report of a woman behaving erratically and lighting things on fire in the kitchen.

They found her on the third floor of the building naked and “acting irrationally,” with the bathroom tub overflowing and flooding the building, cops said.

She was taken into custody “without incident,” and was transported by ambulance to St. Barnabas Hospital for evaluation, arriving at around 7:50 p.m., Deceglie said.

About five minutes later, police received a second 911 call to the same location from the boys’ father reporting that they were unresponsive, according to police and other sources.

A witness said she heard the panicked dad screaming “Help me!” as he carried the bloodied kids through the hallway.

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