Seven people have been found dead in a rural town in Australia’s Margaret River wine-growing region, police said on Friday. The bodies of four children and three adults were found at or near a property in Osmington near the southwestern tip of Australia, Western Australia’s Commissioner of Police Chris Dawson told a news conference. Dawson said firearms were found at the scene. Gun crime in Australia fell sharply after strict controls were introduced in response to a mass shooting in 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania. That prompted the government to buy back or confiscate a million firearms and make it harder to buy new ones.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 11, 2018 05:03 UTC