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| Eight children have been found stabbed to death near the town of Cairns in for northeastern Australia, according to Australian Broadcasting and other news outlets. So far no information is available from authorities about the circumstances of the crime, and no suspect has been identified. | Eight children have been found stabbed to death near the town of Cairns in for northeastern Australia, according to Australian Broadcasting and other news outlets. So far no information is available from authorities about the circumstances of the crime, and no suspect has been identified. |
| The ages of the children reportedly range from 18 months to 15 years, all found in the same home at about 11:2o a.m. local time. The area is described as poor. | The ages of the children reportedly range from 18 months to 15 years, all found in the same home at about 11:2o a.m. local time. The area is described as poor. |
| According to The Australian, a 34-year-old woman has been taken to the hospital from the home. The paper quoted Lisa Thaiday from the scene, saying that the women, her sister, was the mother of the children. Police said she was the mother of seven of the eight. | According to The Australian, a 34-year-old woman has been taken to the hospital from the home. The paper quoted Lisa Thaiday from the scene, saying that the women, her sister, was the mother of the children. Police said she was the mother of seven of the eight. |
| ABC reported interviewing a man named Larry Woosup, who said he was a relative of the home’s occupants. “I’m desperate like everyone else to hear” what happened, he said. “We just had that thing down in Sydney there and it’s the end of the year and it’s a family thing, Christmas and New Year and you get this sort of thing happening.” | ABC reported interviewing a man named Larry Woosup, who said he was a relative of the home’s occupants. “I’m desperate like everyone else to hear” what happened, he said. “We just had that thing down in Sydney there and it’s the end of the year and it’s a family thing, Christmas and New Year and you get this sort of thing happening.” |
| Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar told reporters that “as it stands at the moment, there’s no need for the public to be concerned about this other than the fact that it’s a tragic, tragic event….The situation is well controlled at the moment.” | |
| The reassurance was somewhat newsworthy because of the siege earlier this week in Sydney by Iranian born gunman Man Haron Monis which claimed three lives, including his. | |
| Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot, in a Tweet, said called the events in Cairns “heartbreaking and all parents would feel a gut-wrench sadness at what has happened.” | |