A toddler has been plucked alive from the front steps of a bloodied outback home after police pushed back into danger to snatch the child from harm during an hours-long siege that left two adults dead and a tight-knit community shattered.
Officers had initially been forced to "tactically withdraw" from the Charleville address in southwest Queensland when they were confronted with what senior police described as "quite a violent crime scene" and the possibility of further weapons inside.
