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A 24-year-old man killed his wife, three toddlers and mother-in-law at their suburban family home, where he remained for several days before turning himself in, Australian police said on Monday.
The alleged murders are the third such family tragedy to rock Western Australia in recent months.

Police charged Anthony Robert Harvey with the murders of his two-year-old twins Alice and Beatrix, his three-year-old daughter Charlotte and his 41-year-old wife Mara in the southwestern city of Perth.
Harvey, who lived in the home, is also alleged to have killed his mother-in-law Beverley Quinn, 73, after she arrived at the same address the next day.
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Western Australia Police Commissioner Chris Dawson told reporters no firearms were used in the attacks which police believe were carried out with several weapons including “a blunt instrument and knives”.
“We’re alleging that the murders took place over two days,” he said.
“The mother Mara and her three children were all murdered over a period of time on the third (of September), and that Mrs Quinn was murdered the following morning.”

Dawson said the two women were allegedly attacked in the kitchen while the children were killed “in other rooms of the house”.
“We are alleging that Mr Harvey remained at the … house for some days” before heading north, he said.
Police found the bodies of the five victims at the unassuming detached family home after Harvey walked into a police station in a remote mining area some 1,500km (900 miles) north of the city on Sunday – a week after their deaths.
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A Facebook profile believed to be Mara’s showed her cradling a newborn in her arms, with a man reported to be Harvey beside her, and stated that she was engaged in August 2014.
A real estate listing showed a modest three-bedroom house and a stand-alone garage.
Mara Harvey’s sister Taryn, also Quinn’s daughter and the children’s aunt, wrote about her heartbreak at the killings.
“There are no words to explain the emptiness and loss that we are feeling,” she wrote in a statement released by police late on Monday, adding that Mara’s young children “were her world” and she was “so proud of each of them”.

“This world is a sadder place with the loss of these five beautiful people but Heaven has gained five new angels.”
Earlier a friend of Mara’s told Fairfax Media she was “pretty unlucky in love before she met him … so it was like ‘yay, now she gets to start a family’”.
A neighbour told national broadcaster ABC he had returned from a holiday to “silence in the street”.
“We noticed that the house next door was pretty quiet, which was unusual,” said Richard Fairbrother, who lives next door to the family’s house. “We could hear and see the kids playing in the backyard quite often.”
Other neighbours spoke of a shocked community that had been close, calm and peaceful.
Dawson said it was the third tragedy involving multiple deaths in a family home in his state since May.
In July a man allegedly killed his mother and two siblings. A grandfather shot dead his wife, daughter and her four children in a murder-suicide in May.
Harvey is expected to return to court on September 19.


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Australian man charged with murder of family, including three toddlers, in Perth suburbs

The house where police recovered five dead bodies in the suburb of Perth, Australia. Photo: AFP

A police officer carries a bag from a property where five people were found dead in a suburb of Perth, Australia, September 10, 2018. AAP/Richard Wainwright/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NEW ZEALAND. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA.

Police secure the area close to a house from where they recovered five dead bodies in the suburb of Australia's western city of Perth on September 10, 2018. - The bodies of three young girls, their mother and grandmother were discovered by police in a Perth home, authorities confirmed, in a suspected family killing that has shocked Australia. (Photo by Greg Wood / AFP)

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Australian police find up to five bodies, including children, in house in Perth

Police outside the property in Coode Street in Bedford, Perth, Western Australia on September 9, 2018. Photo: EPA

epa07007600 Forensic police officers are seen next to a property in Bedford, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 09 September 2018. Five bodies have been discovered at a home in suburban Perth with homicide squad detectives investigating. According to reports, children and at least one woman have been found dead at the property. Police could not immediately confirm the number of the dead, but was quoted as saying that 'up to' five bodies were found, media added. A man in his 20s is in custody after he reportedly surrendered himself at a police station in connection to the incident. EPA-EFE/RICHARD WAINWRIGHT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

epa07007597 Forensic police officers are seen inspecting a property in Bedford, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 09 September 2018. Five bodies have been discovered at a home in suburban Perth with homicide squad detectives investigating. According to reports, children and at least one woman have been found dead at the property. Police could not immediately confirm the number of the dead, but was quoted as saying that 'up to' five bodies were found, media added. A man in his 20s is in custody after he reportedly surrendered himself at a police station in connection to the incident. EPA-EFE/RICHARD WAINWRIGHT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

epa07007578 Police are seen at a property in Bedford, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 09 September 2018. Five bodies have been discovered at a home in suburban Perth with homicide squad detectives investigating. According to reports, children and at least one woman have been found dead at the property. Police could not immediately confirm the number of the dead, but was quoted as saying that 'up to' five bodies were found, media added. EPA-EFE/RICHARD WAINWRIGHT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

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Police found the remains of three young girls, as well as those of their mother and grandmother at the unassuming family home


Police found the remains of three young girls, as well as those of their mother and grandmother at an unassuming detached family home near Perth.


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