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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:22 PM Dec 2014

Eight children dead, one adult wounded in stabbing in Australia

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Eight children are dead and one adult is injured after a stabbing at a house in Cairns, Australia. An investigation is still underway.

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Police have cordoned off the house and detectives are searching the yard of the property in the Manoora suburb.

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Eight children dead, one adult wounded in stabbing in Australia (Original Post) shenmue Dec 2014 OP

Horrible tragedy sarisataka Dec 2014 #1

Some coverage on BBC World News right now shenmue Dec 2014 #2

As bad as we have it sarisataka Dec 2014 #3

True shenmue Dec 2014 #4

Australia has very strict gun laws - a little too strict even for me, who's no gun lover by a long nomorenomore08 Dec 2014 #5

no one has ever said banning firearms makes murder impossible Skittles Dec 2014 #6

Of course not. Because it's common sense. n/t nomorenomore08 Dec 2014 #7

Cairns deaths: Children's mother arrested for murder muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 #8

... shenmue Dec 2014 #9

sarisataka

(18,663 posts)

1. Horrible tragedy

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:11 AM

Dec 2014

more questions than details at this point.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. Some coverage on BBC World News right now

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:13 AM

Dec 2014

I don't see it on other stations yet.

sarisataka

(18,663 posts)

3. As bad as we have it

Reply to shenmue (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:17 AM

Dec 2014

the U.S. hardly has a monopoly on senseless violence.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

4. True

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:19 AM

Dec 2014

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

5. Australia has very strict gun laws - a little too strict even for me, who's no gun lover by a long

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:45 AM

Dec 2014

shot - but while the general availability of firearms does tend to correlate positively (in numerical terms) with higher murder rates, banning firearms doesn't make murder impossible. Not even close.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

6. no one has ever said banning firearms makes murder impossible

Reply to nomorenomore08 (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 04:36 AM

Dec 2014

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

7. Of course not. Because it's common sense. n/t

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 04:38 AM

Dec 2014

muriel_volestrangler

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8. Cairns deaths: Children's mother arrested for murder

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:12 PM

Dec 2014

The mother of seven of eight children found dead in a home in Cairns, Australia, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Police said the woman, aged 37, was lucid and talking to investigators. She has not been charged.
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Confirming the arrest, Cairns Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said: "The 37-year-old mother of several of the children involved in this incident has been arrested for murder overnight and is currently under police guard at the Cairns Base Hospital."

"At this stage we're not looking for anybody else - we're comfortable that the community at large is safe," he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30558564

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

9. ...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 11:20 PM

Dec 2014

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