New Delhi, May 4 -- Three boys were rescued from what the police described as the "house of horror" in Spain on Wednesday, April 30.

According to a local news portal, the children, 8-year-old twin boys and a 10-year-old boy, were locked up by a German couple in Oviedo, a northern city on the outskirts of Spain, since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.

A police spokesperson told the local news that the boys had not left the house since December 2021.

"The parents were arrested... and the children were placed in a care home," they said

Spain's Chief Superintendent Francisco Javier Lozano described the house where the children were trapped as a "house of horror".

The local media, citing police, said the house was "completely filled with tra...