A woman and a man have been found dead at a property in Queensland’s south-west, in what police suspect is a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old woman and 45-year-old-man were found at a property on King Street in Charleville this morning.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the property after reports of a serious assault at 6pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:Suicide Call Back Service<\/a> on 1300 659 467Lifeline<\/a> on 13 11 14Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARN<\/a>\u00a0on 13 92 76Kids Helpline<\/a> on 1800 551 800Beyond Blue<\/a> on 1300 224 636Headspace<\/a> on 1800 650 890ReachOut<\/a> at au.reachout.com<\/a>MensLine Australia<\/a> on 1300 789 978QLife 1800 184 527<\/a><\/p>\n An emergency declaration was issued shortly after and revoked about eight hours later.<\/p>\n The Queensland Ambulance Service said a toddler was taken to Charleville Hospital in a stable condition with a minor leg laceration about 6pm.<\/p>\n No members of the public or police officers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n ‘Heartbreaking day’ for rural town<\/p>\n Murweh Shire Mayor Shaun Radnedge said it is a “heartbreaking day” for the Charleville community.\u00a0<\/p>\n “This tragedy will be felt deeply across our small community,” Cr Radnedge said.<\/p>\n “My thoughts, and the thoughts of our councillors and staff, are with the families, friends and everyone affected by the deaths of a man and a woman at a Charleville residence overnight.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Cr Radnedge said he had “every confidence” police would conduct a thorough investigation, and asked the community to “allow that process to take its course”.<\/p>\n The Ethical Standards Command is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and a man have been found dead at a property in Queensland’s south-west, in what police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416688,416689,43,44,127853,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-844973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-charleville-deaths","tag-charleville-murder-suicide","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-suspected-murder-suicide","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}