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By MAX ALDRED FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
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A woman has been arrested after two boys were found dead at a regional property following her desperate phone call asking for help.
Emergency services attended a home in Coonabarabran, in central-west NSW, at 2pm on Monday following reports of a concern for welfare.
Police found a 66-year-old woman at the home with two dead children, aged six and seven.
The woman was taken to hospital for further assessment where she remained under police guard.
A crime scene was established at the home, on the outskirts of Coonabarabran, on Monday evening.
‘Enquiries are ongoing,’ a NSW Police spokeswoman said.
‘There is no ongoing threat to the community. Police are not looking for anyone else.’
No charges have been laid.
A 66-year-old woman has been arrested after police discovered two deceased children at a home in Coonabarabran, New South Wales (above)
A 66-year-old woman, also at the home, was taken into the local police station for questioning
The woman contacted the Department of Communities and Justice and allegedly told staff the boys were dead, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Government staff sent local police to do an urgent welfare check.
Police and paramedics burst onto the property and made the grim discovery.
It is understood police will allege the boys were smothered to death, news.com.au reported.
State Crime Command have now sent detectives from Sydney’s homicide squad to assist local police, with NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb calling the deaths a ‘terrible, terrible tragedy’.
Coonabarabran is a small town of less than 3,500 people, including the surrounding area.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the state would ‘share in the community of Coonabarabran’s grief at the loss of two young boys who had their entire futures ahead of them’.
Senior NSW officials said the deaths were a tragedy, as the small community of Coonabarabran grieves
Meanwhile, a Brisbane woman in her 60s was charged with manslaughter over the death of a baby last year.
Police rushed to a property at Darra in Brisbane’s south-west on April 3, 2024, following reports an infant was unconscious and not breathing.
The 11-month-old baby boy was declared dead at the scene.
Police established Operation Whiskey Nocturne to investigate his death and on Monday detectives charged a 63-year-old Darra woman with manslaughter.
She is due to appear before Richland Magistrates Court on June 4.
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