Australian Woman Arrested After Fatal Stabbing of Eight Children

iStock/Thinkstock(SYDNEY) — Following the discovery of eight children’s bodies in an Australian home Friday morning, police have arrested the the woman who was also found injured at the scene.

Police confirm that the woman who was found with stab wounds to her head and neck has been arrested in her Cairns hospital bed.

Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said, “We will look at everybody and anybody that we need to look at and there might be at a point later down the road, we’ll be talking to more people, we may even have more persons of interest.”

The victims ranged in age from 18 months to 15 years. Seven of them were the suspect’s children and the eighth was her niece.


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