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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

Coonabarabran grandmother in mental health facility after ‘confronting’ deaths of two young boys

Police and emergency vehicles parked on a dirt road
An image taken from video of police and emergency vehicles in Coonabarabran, where two boys were found dead on Monday. Their grandmother has been taken to a mental health facility. Photograph: ABC News/AAP

A woman whose two grandsons died in a regional town in New South Wales is in a mental health facility after what police are treating as a “confronting” alleged double murder.

The boys, aged six and seven, were found dead by police after officers forced entry to a property at Coonabarabran, in the state’s north-west, during a welfare check about 2pm on Monday.

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