Man and pregnant woman found dead in outback Queensland home in apparent murder-suicide after long siege

A 45-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found dead in the Charleville home after a near eight-hour police siege

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A pregnant woman and a man have been found dead at a home in the outback Queensland town of Charleville, in an apparent murder-suicide after a protracted overnight standoff with police.

Several streets in the remote town, 600km west of Toowoomba, were locked down by police on Wednesday evening after officers arrived at the property on King Street after reports of “a serious assault”.