Spain's Guardia Civil (the country's gendarmerie-style national police force) is investigating the deaths of a man and a woman found in Valverde de Júcar, a small village in Cuenca province in central Spain, as a possible case of gender-based violence. The couple had two daughters, aged 6 and 14, and there is no record of prior complaints of abuse involving them. The case is being treated under Spain's framework for tracking intimate-partner violence, which counts such killings in official annual figures.