Emergency services found the two young children dead at a property in Glenholme around 10.30pm. The woman was found with critical injuries and could not be saved.<\/p>\n
A man appeared in Rotorua District Court yesterday charged with assault on a person in a family relationship. He was remanded in custody and was due to reappear in court on October 2.<\/p>\n
Police were not seeking anyone else over the incident.<\/p>\n
Their investigations at the High St property are continuing, with police confirming the ages of the youngest victims late this morning.<\/p>\n
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Police at the scene on High St in the Rotorua suburb of Glenholme. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“Police are continuing to support the family following this traumatic incident,” police said.<\/p>\n
“Police and other specialist staff remain at the scene on High Street, as a forensic examination remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
“Our team are working tirelessly and meticulously through a complex scene, so we can provide answers for those impacted.<\/p>\n
“An investigation of this nature will take some time and we thank the community for their patience.<\/p>\n
“Staff will continue to conduct additional reassurance patrols in the Glenholme area and wider community over the coming days.”<\/p>\n
‘Three pops’<\/p>\n
High St resident Lynn Doak described hearing “three pops” on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I heard was two people arguing, a man and a woman, and a lady screamed,\u201d she told the Rotorua Daily Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was more argy-bargy and then there were three pops. I said to my husband, \u2018Those bloody kids and their crackers again\u2019, because they come up the street and throw crackers up your drive.”<\/p>\n
She said she felt incredibly sad over the deaths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just said to my husband, I feel like it\u2019s my kids, you know. Hell, it\u2019s terrible.”<\/p>\n
‘Horrific tragedy’<\/p>\n
Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell yesterday said the incident was heart-breaking.<\/p>\n
A man at the address is assisting police with their enquiries. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“As the investigation continues, our thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and all those impacted,” she said.<\/p>\n
“This has been deeply distressing for the neighbourhood involved. <\/p>\n
“We acknowledge our emergency services and front line staff who have responded to this horrific tragedy. <\/p>\n
“Police are continuing to investigate what has happened to provide answers, and we will continue to support them to keep our community safe.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children killed in Rotorua on Monday evening were aged 3, and 11 months, police say. A homicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-595460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}