Homicide officers were last night trying to piece together the Sharma family's last days after they were found dead at their Glen Waverley home, in Melbourne's southeast.
The bodies of accountant Nilesh Sharma, 36, his wife Preetika, 32, their son Divesh, 5, and daughter Divya, 3, were discovered when police were called to make a welfare check.
The two children were found in beds in separate bedrooms. It is believed Mr Sharma was found hanged.
The children's great uncle, Abhay Singh, yesterday said the family had seemed happy when they attended his son's birthday party last week.
"They were very happy, they had a drink and we had fun," he said.
"The kids were very amicable, well mannered, polite and well presented. We are all devastated. Very shaken - a whole family is destroyed."
Last December the family were lucky to escape after a car crash in the Dandenong Ranges. Mr Sharma was taken to hospital with chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries and burns.
The uncle of the two children, Abhay Singh, said the family was very close and they were "absolutely shattered". He said he "fell into pieces" when his daughter broke the news to him.
He said the family attended his son's birthday party last week and everyone seemed happy.
Mr Singh said the couple did not have marital problems, and he believes they had died from a gas tank explosion.
"It's a real mystery, we just do not know what has happened," Mr Singh said. "We are all devastated. Very shaken -- a whole family is destroyed."
Mr Singh said Nilesh was an accountant and Preetika was also a professional. He said he visited the family regularly and they never seemed to have any problems.
"It is shattering," he said. "I don't know how anyone can recover from that."
Shocked neighbours who spoke to The Australian said they did not usually see much of the Sharma family, saying they always kept to themselves.
Several neighbours, who did not want to be named, said they had seen the children playing in the street during the summer and several times seen the mother, but they never knew that a man, the father, lived there.
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