{"id":163408,"date":"2018-05-12T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163408"},"modified":"2018-05-12T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T08:43:31","slug":"4-children-among-7-killed-in-australian-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/12\/4-children-among-7-killed-in-australian-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"4 children among 7 killed in Australian mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148505\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148505\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg\" alt=\"Australian secret service officers on Thursday secured thousands of classified documents that were sold with two secondhand filing cabinets and have been the basis of news reports by Australia's national broadcaster. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Australia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detectives from the State&#8217;s Homicide Squad and Forensic Crime Scene Unit believe the tragic incident is likely to be a murder-suicide, making it the worst mass shooting in Australia since 1996 (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0SYDNEY &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0Seven people, including four children, have been shot dead in the early hours of Friday morning, near the Margaret River area, some 270 kilometers south of Perth in Western Australia.<br \/>\nWestern Australian Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said officers were called to a property in a small town called Osmington at 05:15 (AWST), where they made the gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The loss of any life is tragic, four children and three adults, this is a significant tragedy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that gunshot wounds are there, but I don&#8217;t want to go further than that, as two firearms have been located at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, no further details about the identity of the victims have been released. However, police did confirm they are not looking for a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the State&#8217;s Homicide Squad and Forensic Crime Scene Unit believe the tragic incident is likely to be a murder-suicide, making it the worst mass shooting in Australia since 1996, when a gunman killed 35 in the Port Arthur Massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0SYDNEY &#8212;\u00a0Seven people, including four children, have been shot dead in the early hours of Friday morning, near the Margaret &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[268,50798],"class_list":["post-163408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-australia","tag-chris-dawson","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}