NSW police investigate deaths of two boys in Blue Mountains, mother arrested

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Police in New South Wales are investigating a tragic incident in the Blue Mountains, where two boys were found dead at a home west of Sydney yesterday afternoon. The boys' mother has been arrested and is currently at the hospital under police guard. Ethan Rix reports from the Blue Mountains.

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00:00Locals have started to lay flowers here at the scene in Falkenbridge, where yesterday

00:07the bodies of two young boys aged 9 and 11 were discovered by their father with stab

00:13wounds and their mother was taken into custody and she remains at Westmead Hospital under

00:19police guard.

00:20It was at 12.40 in the afternoon when the father made the grim discovery.

00:24The boys' bodies were found with stab wounds and shortly after police arrested their mother

00:29when she was taken to hospital for self-inflicted injuries.

00:33She remains in a stable condition and is yet to be formally charged.

00:37Now the tragedy of this incident is being felt across the community today and will continue

00:42to be felt for many months to come.

00:46Many locals are too emotional to speak at the moment and consoling one another, unable

00:51to process that this has happened on their own street.

00:54We heard from police yesterday that this is as tragic as it comes.

00:58We've also spoken about the help that will be available for those police officers who

01:04first attended the scene.

01:06Police Commissioner Karen Webb decided to come up here personally yesterday to provide

01:10that support to the local command.

01:12We've seen a lot of tragedy in recent months.

01:15The deaths of these two boys makes it six children now who have died from suspected

01:21family and domestic violence incidents in New South Wales in just the last four months.

01:27Neighbours of course are still coming to terms with what has taken place here as well.

01:32Many of them said they used to see those children riding their bikes up and down the street

01:36regularly and attended the local school not too far away from here where they were 24

01:41hours before their bodies were discovered by their father yesterday afternoon.

01:46The mother remains under police guard in Westmead Hospital.

01:49She's yet to be formally charged.

01:51Police say she was known to them but only for minor matters.

01:57For more information visit www.fema.gov.uk

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