Five dead in 'horrific' Australian mass murder

AFP, Melbourne

Five people, including two children, were found bludgeoned to death in a Sydney home in a "horrific" mass murder with no apparent motive, Australian police said Sunday.
Police said the victims, discovered Saturday in the Sydney suburb of North Epping, were believed to be four family members and a female relative.
"The injuries of all five people are quite definitely horrific," Superintendent Geoff Beresford told Sky News.
"They're all blunt trauma injuries to the upper body and to the heads of all the victims, which regrettably makes visual identification very difficult.
"It was an extremely violent attack carried out, I guess, with some precision."
Police said the bodies were believed to be a 45-year-old man and his wife, 43, their sons, aged 12 and nine, and the woman's 39-year-old sister.
They refused to identify the dead but media reports said two of the victims were Chinese-born Min Lin, his wife Yun Li Lin.
The deaths were initially thought to be murder-suicide, possibly linked to a domestic dispute, but Beresford on Sunday ruled out that possibility and admitted police were struggling to find a motive for the killings.