Pregnant woman dead and toddler found unharmed after outback Queensland siege ends in apparent murder-suicide
by Ben Smee and Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#77G58)
A 45-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found dead in the Charleville home after a near eight-hour police siege
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A pregnant woman and a man have been found dead at a home in the outback Queensland town of Charleville, in an apparent murder-suicide after a protracted overnight standoff with police.
Police confirmed on Thursday that a toddler, who was found unharmed, had been at the home during the eight-hour siege that began on Wednesday evening.
Several streets in the remote town, 600km west of Toowoomba, were locked down by police after officers arrived at the property on King Street following reports of a serious assault".
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