A nine-year-old boy and an eight-month-old girl were found dead, while their mother was found alive with slash wounds on her neck and wrists in a suspected murder-suicide case at an apartment building in Miaoli County, authorities said.
The Miaoli County Fire Bureau said it received a call at 2:20pm on Thursday directing it to a residence in Toufen Township (頭份), where first responders found three people lying in a bedroom, including two children who were already visibly dead.
Their mother, a woman in her 30s surnamed Wu (吳), was found alive, with slash wounds on her neck and wrists and a knife lodged in the left side of her chest, the fire bureau said.
Photo: screen grab from the Miaoli County Fire Department Facebook page
After attending to Wu’s injuries, paramedics transferred her to an area hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, it said.
Sources at the bureau said the woman’s husband had recently moved out of the home. When he returned to the house on Monday, he found Wu and their two children lying in the bedroom and called emergency services.
Police, who were also called in to investigate, said no suicide letter or traces of burned charcoal were found at the scene.
Autopsies would be needed to determine the children’s cause of death, the police added.
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