Six family members are under arrest in connection to the murder of another family. Eight members of the Rhoden family were killed in their home in 2016. Four members of the Wagner family are charged with aggravated murder, and two others are accused of helping cover it up. Investigators say the family conspired to kill the Rhoden family over the custody of a young child. </s> Image copyright EPA Image caption The shooting took place in a comfortable, spacious house near St Poelten

Austrian police say six bodies have been found in a house 54km (34 miles) west of Vienna, after a suspected shooting of family members.

Few details are available, but Austrian media say a woman is suspected of having shot her mother, brother and three children aged seven to 10, before turning the gun on herself.

The attack happened in Boeheimkirchen, a small town just outside St Poelten.

The alarm was raised after the children failed to go to school for three days.

Image copyright AFP Image caption The building used to be a small family hotel, a neighbour said

A neighbour reported their absence, public broadcaster ORF said. The woman suspected of the massacre was aged 35, her mother 59 and brother 40, ORF reported.

The shooting is believed to have happened three days ago.

The family moved into the house, in the Schildberg area, 18 months ago. A neighbour said they had "behaved in a very withdrawn way, mostly going out only in the evening". He said he had sold the house to the family. </s> VIENNA - Three German skiers were found dead overnight and a fourth is missing after they were swept away in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, police said on Sunday.

The group of four had been using touring skis, which enable skiers to climb as well as ski down slopes and explore off-piste, police in the western province of Vorarlberg said.

The three dead men, from the Upper Swabia area of southwestern Germany, were found around 11 pm after one of their wives declared them missing. They were aged 57, 36 and 32. The fourth person, who is 28 and also from southern Germany, was still missing, a police statement said.

Heavy snow has hit the Austrian Alps in the past week, raising avalanche warning levels and cutting off local roads. The warning level in the area above 2,000 meters on Saturday was 3 on a scale that goes up to 5. </s> As the search continued Tuesday for three siblings and questions mounted over how the rest of their family ended up dead at the bottom of a California cliff, investigators hope a laptop and iPad yield clues, an affidavit shows.

Police seized the devices from the Woodland, Washington, home of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, on Thursday, according to court documents related to the search warrant.

In the affidavit requesting the search warrant, a Clark County, Washington, sheriff's deputy says he is seeking evidence that will shed light on what happened to the family. That evidence could include travel itineraries, bank records, phone records, credit card receipts, hotel receipts or "handwritten or typed journals or notes related to travel, care for the children and or suicide note/s."

It adds that the California Highway Patrol's investigators believe "a felony has been committed."

The bodies of Jennifer and Sarah Hart and three of their children were found in and around their SUV. The bodies of the mothers, both 38, were discovered inside their overturned SUV near a remote stretch of Highway 1 in Northern California on March 26. Jennifer Hart was in the driver's seat, according to the search warrant affidavit. What we know about the mysterious crash Emergency responders found the bodies of three of their six adopted children -- Markis, 19, and Jeremiah and Abigail, both 14 -- outside the car, which landed upside down on the rocky shoreline below the cliff. Evidence from the scene and data retrieved from the car has led investigators to believe Jennifer Hart may have intentionally drove the SUV off the cliff. Their other children -- Hannah, 16, Devonte, 15, and Sierra, 12 -- are missing. Nobody reported seeing the crash. Though a police news release says the California Highway Patrol and Mendocino County Sheriff's Office are continuing an "active search" for the missing children, the search warrant affidavit says they, too, may have been in the SUV. The kids "have not been located and it is feared that they may have also been involved in the collision and presumed deceased," the affidavit says. </s> A MAN SUSPECTED of shooting six people dead in Zagreb took his own life today after police tried to arrest him, Croatian authorities have said.

Local media reported that the suspect was the former spouse of one of the victims, who was killed along with her partner and four members of her family, including a child.

The man died by suicide “during the arrest operation”, police confirmed in a brief statement.

Neighbours raised the alarm late last night, police said, after hearing gunshots from the house in the Kajzerica area in the south of the capital.

The neighbourhood was sealed off and a manhunt launched.

The victims included “two men, three women and a child”, Zagreb police chief Marko Rasic told reporters.

Another child found at the same house was unharmed, he added. </s> Man commits suicide after shooting six dead in Croatia

Zagreb: -A man suspected of shooting six people dead in Zagreb took his own life Friday after police tried to arrest him, Croatian authorities said.



Local media reported the suspect was the former spouse of one of the victims, who was killed along with her partner and four members of her family, including a child.

"The man linked to the crime was located and committed suicide during the arrest operation," police said in a brief statement Friday.

Neighbours raised the alarm late Thursday night, police said, after hearing gunshots from the house in the Kajzerica area in the south of the capital.

The neighbourhood was sealed off and a manhunt launched.

The victims included "two men, three women and a child", Zagreb police chief Marko Rasic told reporters.

Another child found at the same house was unharmed, he added. </s> A police dragnet ended on August 2 when a suspect who allegedly killed six people in the Croatian capital committed suicide, local media report.

 

 He is believed to have fatally shot six people in the capital on the previous night. 

 

 Local media report that he was the former spouse of one of the victims, who was killed with her partner and four family members.

 

 Officers found the dead bodies in a home in a southern neighborhood of the city after neighbors alerted them to gunshots.

 

 The vicitms included two men, three women, and a child, Zagreb police chief Marko Rasic told reporters.

 

 Only a seven-month old baby survived the shooting, Radio Sarajevo reported.

 

 The victims appeared to have been shot dead by a firearm, AFP reported.

 

 Police found the suspect dead from apparent suicide in Brezovica, a different city district than where the murders were committed. 

 

 Based on reporting by AFP, Radio Sarajevo, RTS.RS, and HR.n1 </s> (Reuters) - Six family members including a 10-year-old child were found shot dead in Croatia’s capital Zagreb by a man who later appeared to have killed himself, police said on Friday.

The suspect committed suicide when confronted by police following a search that sealed off parts of the Croatian capital, Zagreb police chief Marko Rasic told a news conference.

A firearm was found at the scene where the suspect, a 30-year-old taxi driver, had killed himself, Rasic said.

The bodies were found by police late on Thursday following a call from neighbors who had heard cries and shots at a house in the Zagreb neighborhood of Kajzerica, Rasic said. A seven-month-old baby was found unharmed at the house.

Local media reported that the suspect’s ex-wife and her partner were among the victims.

Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic said the killings were an isolated incident and that “there is no sign of ... terror threat in Zagreb.” </s> (Reuters) - Police on Monday searched the ocean off California and highways for three children missing since the sport-utility vehicle carrying their large family plunged off a cliff, killing at least six people in what may have been an intentional crash.

The family's wrecked GMC Yukon was discovered last Monday below the scenic California coastal cliff, only three days after child welfare authorities in their home state of Washington opened an investigation into allegations the children were being neglected, police and social services said.

According to court records, the family had troubles in the past when one of its two white mothers was charged with domestic assault against one of their six adopted black children.

The Hart family gained attention in 2014 after one of the children, Devonte, was photographed crying in the arms of a white police officer at a protest after the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.

Driver Jennifer Hart, 38, and Sarah Hart, 38, a married couple from Washington state, were killed. So were at least three of their six adopted children, Markis, 19, Jeremiah, 14, and Abigail, 14, police said.

The bodies of their three other children, Hannah, 16, Devonte, 15, and Sierra, 12, were not recovered, but officials have said they believed all the children were in the vehicle and the other bodies may have been washed into the ocean.

"The search for the additional three children belonging to the family continues both at the scene, through water rescue and recovery, and other locations including routes of travel," the California Highway Patrol said in a statement. "This situation may have been an intentional act and not the result of a traffic collision."

The SUV appears to have stopped at a dirt pull-off area about 70 feet (21 meters) from the cliff at the edge of California's coastal Highway 1 in Mendocino County, about 180 miles (290 km) north of San Francisco, according to the vehicle's on-board computer.

It then accelerated over the edge, leaving no skid marks or other indications of a collision, the statement said. The SUV fell into rocks and was found partially submerged about 100 feet (30 meters) below the highway.

Police searched the family's home in Woodland, Washington, about 500 miles (805 km) north of the crash site, but found no suicide note.

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services said it opened an investigation into the family for potential child neglect or abuse after a complaint on March 23.

Neighbors Dana and Bruce DeKalb told the Oregonian newspaper that Devonte had asked them for food for himself and his siblings after his parents withheld it as punishment. The DeKalbs did not respond to requests for comment.

Sarah Hart was convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault of Abigail in 2011 in Minnesota. Court documents show that one of the children, Abigail, told a teacher: "Mom hit me."
Six members of one family, including three children, are found dead in Böheimkirchen, Austria. Police suspect a murder-suicide by one of the female relatives.