Danish police on Sunday released the names of two girls whose burnt bodies were found in a car with Danish number plates abandoned off a road west of Berlin, DPA reported.
A memorial was held Sunday at their school, the online edition of Nordjyske reported, identifying the girls as Line Sofie Rudgaard, 9, and Marlene Marie Rudgaard, 10.
The autopsy results are expected to be announced on Monday. But the coroner's work would be difficult because the bodies were burnt beyond recognition. Their dental records were being sent to Germany, Nordjyske reported.
The car was found in woodland to the north of the city of Potsdam on Friday morning.
A search of the father's home for possible letters or other documents that could shed light on Friday's events did not reveal anything, police spokesman Ole Kristensen was quoted as telling Nordjyske.
German newspapers reported Saturday that a man with severe burns had been taken to a hospital in Berlin.
The mass-circulation Bild reported that the 40-year-old man had told a witness the bodies were those of his daughters aged 10 and 11. But he slipped into a coma on Sunday and was in a Berlin hospital.
The Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet quoted friends and relatives of the family as saying that the girls' parents were divorced last year, and there was a controversy over visitation rights.
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