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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police charged a 24-year-old man with five murders for discovering the bodies of a family, including a mother and three children, in the city of Perth on the west coast.
The CBA reported that two-year-old twins, their three-and-a-half year old sister, mother and grandmother were found dead in a house in Bedford on Sunday after a man went to the police station. regional.
The relationship between the man and the victims has yet to be revealed by the police.
Violent crime with multiple victims is rare in Australia, but it was the second major incident in Western Australia this year. Seven people were shot dead in May.
In Australia, crimes committed with firearms dropped sharply after the strict control of firearms in response to a shooting in 1996, when a single gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania.
(Report by Wayne Cole, edited by Simon Cameron-Moore)
