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Mother arrested and in hospital after two children found dead in Blue Mountains home | |
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Bodies of two boys – aged nine and 11 – discovered inside Faulconbridge home by their father, with 42-year-old mother under police guard | |
Two children have been found dead in a Blue Mountains home by their father with the boys’ mother in hospital under police guard. | |
New South Wales police said officers were called to the home in Faulconbridge at about midday on Tuesday over welfare concerns for a woman and two children. | New South Wales police said officers were called to the home in Faulconbridge at about midday on Tuesday over welfare concerns for a woman and two children. |
The bodies of the boys, aged nine and 11, were discovered inside the home by their father, who then contracted police, Supt John Nelson said. | |
Police said their 42-year-old mother had self-inflicted injuries and was taken to Westmead hospital in Sydney under police guard. She was in a stable condition and had been arrested, the NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, told reporters. | |
Nelson, the commander of the Blue Mountains police area, said officers had found a “tragic scene” and all avenues were open to investigation. | |
“There is no ongoing threat to the community,” a police spokesperson said earlier in a statement. “Police are not looking for anyone else.” | |
Officers from the Blue Mountains were investigating the circumstances of the deaths assisted by the homicide squad. | |
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Anyone with information was urged to contact Crime Stoppers. |