LAKE STATION, Ind. -- Police conducting a welfare check Friday afternoon discovered five people dead inside a home in northwest Indiana. When officers arrived at the home in Lake Station, about 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, they obtained a search warrant and found the bodies, according to a Lake Station Police Department statement.

Five people were found dead after police responded to a welfare check on Friday evening in Lake Station, Indiana, authorities said.

It was unclear if the victims were all members of the same family, how the victims died, or if any children were involved.

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