Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, a murder-suicide which left seven people dead. Mass shootings are uncommon in Australia and Friday’s was the deadliest since a 1996 massacre that left 35 dead at Port Arthur in Tasmania. Police issued a statement from unnamed relatives of the Miles family saying: “We are devastated by this shocking event. Facebook posts by Katrina and Cynda Miles, quoted by local media, referred to the children as all being autistic and homeschooled. “It wasn’t until I saw the police that I thought, ‘Hang on a minute’,” Meg Janes told the newspaper.

Source: Punch May 12, 2018 07:30 UTC