Two young children found dead in remote Queensland Indigenous community

Jarred Cross
Jarred Cross Published November 11, 2023 at 9.42am (AWST)

An investigation has been launched after the death of two toddlers in a remote Indigenous community in central Queensland.

On Friday evening police attended a property at Woorabinda, around 150 kilometres south-east of Rockhampton, where a two-year-old boy was found in a parked car.

He was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly before 8pm.

According to reports, an emergency helicopter was called but not used.

At around 9:15 pm, police attended the address and found a second child, a three-year-old boy, in a parked car before being taken to hospital where he was also pronounced dead.

A crime scene has been declared and detectives are investigating.

It has been reported the relationship, if any, between the two children is unknown at the stage.

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