A woman has been arrested after her grandsons were found dead at a regional property following a grandmothers phone call asking for help.
Emergency services attended a home in Coonabarabran, in central-west NSW, at 2pm on Monday following reports of a concern for welfare.
Police found a 66-year-old grandmother at the home with two dead children, aged six and seven.
The woman was taken to hospital for further assessment where she remained under police guard.
A crime scene was established at the home, on the outskirts of Coonabarabran, on Monday evening.
Enquiries are ongoing, a NSW Police spokeswoman said.
There is no ongoing threat to the community. Police are not looking for anyone else.
No charges have been laid.
A grandmother has been arrested after police discovered two deceased children at a home in Coonabarabran, New South Wales (above)
A 66-year-old, also at the home, was taken into the local police station for questioning
The grandmother contacted the Department of Communities and Justice and allegedly told staff the boys were dead, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Government staff sent local police to do an urgent welfare check.
Police and paramedics burst onto the property and made the grim discovery.
It is understood police will allege the boys were smothered to death, news.com.au reported.
State Crime Command have now sent detectives from Sydneys homicide squad to assist local police, with NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb calling the deaths a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Coonabarabran is a small town of less than 3,500 people, including the surrounding area.
Two little firecracker kids! a loved one wrote online following the news.
They were amongst it all, 100 miles an hour, involved in soccer, karate, wild as march hares and cute as buttons!
Senior NSW officials said the deaths were a tragedy, as the small community of Coonabarabran grieves
So devastating for all, It makes me sick to think how their last minutes were spent.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the state would share in the community of Coonabarabrans grief at the loss of two young boys who had their entire futures ahead of them.
Meanwhile, a Brisbane woman in her 60s was charged with manslaughter over the death of a baby last year.
Police rushed to a property at Darra in Brisbanes south-west on April 3, 2024, following reports an infant was unconscious and not breathing.
The 11-month-old baby boy was declared dead at the scene.
Police established Operation Whiskey Nocturne to investigate his death and on Monday detectives charged a 63-year-old Darra woman with manslaughter.
She is due to appear before Richland Magistrates Court on June 4.
