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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/18/report-8-children-stabbed-to-death-in-australia/

http://rt.com/news/215799-australia-stabbed-victims-children/

Woman arrested in stabbing deaths of eight children in Australia

Hours after eight children were found stabbed to death in a home in northeastern Australia, police officials said that the mother of seven of the children had been arrested in the killings.

According to the Associated Press, Queensland Police Det. Inspector Bruno Asnicar said Saturday morning that the 37-year-old woman was under guard at a hospital in Cairns, Australia. The woman was the aunt of the eighth stabbing victim, the AP reported.

Police said they will not be releasing the name of the woman at this stage. She has been arrested for murder but has not been charged.

From the AP:

Police haven’t said how the children died. But Asnicar said they’re examining several knives in the home that may have been the weapon used to kill the children.

The woman was also found in the home with the children, suffering from stab wounds to the chest. Asnicar says she is lucid and talking to police.

Asnicar says the children ranged in age from 18 months to 14 years.

The children were found Friday in the home at about 11:20 a.m. local time, officials said. Detectives were waiting for forensics technicians to complete their work inside the house before entering.

Shocked residents of the town kept vigil during the night as a steady stream of people brought flowers to the scene.

Bessie Mareko, a neighbor, told Australian Broadcasting that she saw the woman and a number of children at 2 a.m. cleaning the home and putting unwanted items on the street. “I’m really shocked. I just saw her this morning on the veranda with her kids,” she told the network.

The deaths were called one of the worst single-family killings in Australia. The news stunned the nation, which is still mourning two people killed earlier this week in a hostage siege in Sydney carried out by Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis.

Asnicar told reporters late Friday 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.”

Cairns, once a mining town, is a popular destination for tourists exploring the Great Barrier Reef. Its population is about 200,000.

According to the Australian, the woman’s cousin Lisa Thaiday said that a 20-year old relative discovered the bodies in the house. The tragedy came as a shock to the big, tight-knit family, the paper reported.

“We’re a big family and most of us are from the (Torres) Strait,” she told the Australian. “I just can’t believe it … those poor babies.”

ABC interviewed 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, according to the ABC report. “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.”

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement that the events are “heartbreaking and all parents would feel a gut-wrench sadness at what has happened.”

“These are trying days for our country,” he added.

The woman was clearly acting upon the evil of knives. There must be more knife control.

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Oh jesus frigging crisp.

I read about this it's awful. There's literally no words to describe what I feel reading this. I was shocked it wasn't posted here earlier

But...it wasn't an Islamist so therefore couldn't have been a muslim and in that sense not a terrorist or terrorist act so therefore didn't get immediate billing on CDC.

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This is devastatingly tragic. So very sad to see more innocents lost ...& taken in horrific & alarming ways.

Were there warning signs,.. that this lady was troubled & so sick? All the more reason for everyone in this world to be vigilant. Reporting & early intervention can save lives.

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This is devastatingly tragic. So very sad to see more innocents lost ...& taken in horrific & alarming ways.

Were there any signs or warnings,.. that this lady was troubled or sick? All the more reason for everyone to be more vigilant in our world. Early intervention can save lives.

I'd say anytime a grown ass woman is forcing her children to move large scale furniture items to a curb past midnight (as per a few witness statements on various news stations) there's very loud warning signs.

Just so frigging terrible

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i can't tell if Ambien posted this because he wanted to put in the gun control jab, or what? i mean, it's sad and all, but who really cares?

folks, at this very moment, literally as you read this, someone is having a knife driven into their gut by someone else. worrying about this stuff will just ruin your day

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What sort of a person are you ?

This is a horrific event and this is the comment you make ?

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What sort of a person are you ?

This is a horrific event and this is the comment you make ?

I hope you're not shocked.

The right minded individuals of canada also immediately politicized the death of Nathan Cirillo the honour guard who died at the monument to the unknown soldier in Ottawa last month

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I know you have me on ignore, but you're a sad human being.

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