Western Australia police have charged a man over the deaths of two young children at a house in the coastal suburb of Yanchep in Perth’s north. The bodies of the children – a five-year-old girl and three-year-old boy – were found in the home on Thursday night along with their 35-year-old father, who had what police believed were self-inflicted wounds. In Perth, the grandmother and mother of the children’s father said police had visited her at 4am on Friday with the devastating news. “His injuries were fairly significant requiring some fairly intense medical attention,” Clements told reporters. He said it was too early to say how the children had died.

Source: The Guardian October 22, 2016 02:03 UTC