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Horrific murder/suicide in Brisbane.


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This has devastated Australia.  Yet another case of a violent estranged husband brutally stalking and killing his estranged frightened wife and children.  In this case,  this monster ambushed his wife in her car while she was doing the school drop off,  poured petrol all over her and their three young children and set them on fire.  Stopped others from trying to save them and then killed himself with a knife when he was sure they were burning.  There is a special place in Hell for him. 

 Hannah Baxter: Australian mother and children 'senselessly murdered'

Hannah Clarke and Rowan Baxter and their children

 

Australia is mourning the deaths of a woman and her three children who were "senselessly murdered" in a car fire. 

 

The case has sparked national outcry over domestic violence.

"Australians all over the country are just shocked, saddened and devastated about what has happened in a suburban street," Mr Morrison told reporters on Thursday.

"Hannah and her three children [were] so senselessly and maddeningly murdered in what has occurred in a terrible act of violence," he said.

On Thursday, Queensland Police said the children and their mother had been killed, and there were no suspicious circumstances concerning Mr Baxter's death.

"There's a rising sense of anger in this day and age [that] the scourge of family and domestic violence still can lead to the death of five people," said Det Insp. Mark Thompson.

What do we know?

Police were first called to the scene in the suburb of Camp Hill the city's east in at 08:30 local time on Wednesday 

They found the couple's three children - Laianah, 6, Aaliyah, 4, and Trey, 3 - dead inside the car, and their mother burning on the ground beside it. Hannah Clarke, 31, died later in hospital from extensive burns.

Witnesses told Australian media she had screamed "he's poured petrol on me" and "save my children" when helpers rushed to the site.

They said Mr Baxter, 42, had attempted to stop helpers intervening, before grabbing a knife from the car and stabbing himself to death. Emergency responders were unable to revive him when they arrived at the scene.

Reports have previously referred to Mrs Clarke as Mrs Baxter, but police said she was using her maiden name. She had been driving the car at the time of the incident.

What do we know about the victims?

Family services had previously supported Mrs Clarke with domestic violence issues, and a temporary protection order had been granted by authorities, police said.

She had moved to her parents' home in Camp Hill with the children last year after separating from her husband. The two had been working out custody arrangements.

"She loved them so fiercely and she was doing everything she could to protect them," her friend Caitlin Langford told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Hannah Clarke and her three children lie on a beach

What has the reaction been?

Tributes have poured in for the victims. There has been widespread anger and despair, amid ongoing concern about violence against women.

On average, one woman per week is murdered in Australia by a current or former male partner, according to the Bureau of Statistics.

Former Olympic cyclist Tracy Gaudry said: "#HannahBaxter and her three young children died today in the most despicable way. They should have been safe. Mourning for lives lost, thoughts with family, friends and community."

"Another week, another man annihilates his wife and family. Australia, we need to talk," said Australian poet Rob Scott.

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