A six-year-old girl and a 44-year-old man have died after an incident on the Isle of Wight.

The girl was found unconscious at a house in East Cowes on Wednesday morning, alongside the man's body and two dead dogs, Hampshire Police said.

She was rushed to St Mary's Hospital in Newport but died a short time later.

A Hampshire Police spokeswoman said officers were called to a property in Cromwell Avenue in East Cowes, across the River Medina from Cowes on the northern, Solent coast side of the island, shortly after 10am.

"At this stage police are treating this as an isolated incident and we would like to reassure the community that there is no wider risk," she said.

Efforts to formerly identify the two dead are ongoing, and officers are to remain at the crime scene overnight.