SYDNEY: A rural Australian town was in shock Wednesday after a mother and her three children were found shot dead at a farmhouse in a "horrific scene", as police searched a nearby dam for the father.

Police found the bodies after being called to a property near the town of Lockhart about 535 kilometres (332 miles) southwest of Sydney on Tuesday afternoon.

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