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Perth, Australia (AFP) – The bodies of three preschool girls were among the five people found dead in a suburban home in Australia, officials said Monday, while new details about a multiple murder of grizzlies shocked the community. country.
Police found the remains of toddlers, as well as those of their mother and grandmother, in an unpretentious isolated family home near the city of Perth in the south-west of the country.
The discovery took place after a man in his twenties visited a regional police station Sunday morning, investigators said.
Police in western Australia said Monday that "the five people killed were two-year-old twins, a three-and-a-half year old girl, their mother and their grandmother".
"The man who is currently assisting the police remains in detention, no charges have been laid at the moment."
No other details about when and how they were killed, or the relationship of the family with the man, were released.
A neighbor told the national broadcaster ABC that he had returned from vacation to "silence in the street".
"We noticed that the next house was pretty quiet, which was unusual, since they had young children," said Richard Fairbrother, who lives next door to the family home.
"We had friends who stayed here and who also mentioned that they had not seen or heard anyone by the side during the week we were gone … we could hear and see the kids playing in the yard quite often. "
Other neighbors have talked about a close, quiet and peaceful community.
Mass killings are rare in Australia, but this seems to be the third such family tragedy to hit Western Australia in recent months.
In July, a man reportedly killed his mother and two siblings. A grandfather shot dead his wife, daughter, and four children in May.
