In Australia, three small children die and the mother is killed in a car fire. A bad suspicion hits the father, who is found dead shortly afterwards.
- A terrible tragedy happened in Australia .
- Three children and the mother are burned in a car.
- The father is said to be the culprit - but he is also no longer alive.
Brisbane - Flowers are now lying in the place where, according to media reports, a father has poured petrol over his three small children and his wife, who lives separately from him, in a car, and there are flowers: across the country, the death of 31-year-olds and their children has aged of three, four and six years on Wednesday near the city of Brisbane triggered horror. "Australians across the country are just shocked, sad and crushed," Prime Minister Scott Morrison told the press on Thursday, according to the Australian news agency AAP.
According to media reports, the mother had wanted to take her three children to school in the Camp Hill suburb of Brisbane by car when the father jumped into the passenger seat. The car went on a little further, reports from an eyewitness. Then the 31-year-old ran away from the car and shouted: "He poured gasoline over me". Then the car went up in flames.
Murder in Camp Hill / Brisbane, Australia: Children die in the car
The three children reportedly died in the car. The wife initially survived seriously injured, but died of burns in the hospital hours later. According to the police, the 42-year-old alleged perpetrator died on the sidewalk from self-inflicted injuries - apparently stab wounds, as the newspaper "The Sydney Morning Herald" wrote.
The Queensland Police Department did not initially speak of murder on Thursday. But Prime Minister Morrison said the country was shocked that this family had been “senselessly murdered”. According to media reports, the couple split up in late 2019. "The Sydney Morning Herald" published a photo showing the mother and her three young children laughing on a bank in the water.
The burnt out car.
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