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A woman poses flowers in front of the house in Perth
A man has been charged with the murder of his wife, three young children and grandmother in a house in Western Australia (WA).
The bodies of Mara Lee Harvey, 41, Alice and Beatrix, two-year-olds, three-year-old Charlotte, and Beverley Quinn, 73, were found by police in Perth on Sunday.
Anthony Robert Harvey, 24, was charged with five murders Monday.
The deaths were caused by "a blunt instrument and knives," police said.
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said that Ms. Harvey and the children died at their home in the suburbs of Bedford on September 3rd.
Ms. Quinn was killed after going home the next day, Dawson said.
The police alleged that Harvey stayed in the house for "a few days" before traveling to a police station in Pannawonica on Sunday, about 1,430 kilometers north of Perth. They would not give more details.
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Police investigate the scene in the suburbs of Bedford
Deputy Prime Minister Roger Cook said, "We are wholeheartedly with the family and friends of all involved, as well as with the first responders who have witnessed this horrible situation.
"I want everyone to take their children in their arms, embrace their family today."
This is the third alleged mass murder that took place in Western Australia this year.
In July, a 19-year-old man was charged with the murder of two children and their mother in another suburb of Perth, Ellenbrook.
Two months earlier, seven people were found dead on a rural property in Osmington, 280 km south of Perth, in the country's largest mass fire since 1996.
