Woman burns children
NZPA-Reuter Melbourne A woman burnt herself and her two children to death after dousing the three of them with petrol in their backyard, the Australian police said yesterday. They said the woman, in her thirties, and a one-year-old daughter were found dead on Saturday in Melbourne’s St Albans suburb. A daughter, aged seven, died in hospital yesterday.
A spokeswoman told AAP detectives we’re not looking for any other person.
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Press, 4 January 1988, Page 5
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