The children are believed to all be under the age of 10

The ODT is also reporting a woman, taken to hospital following the incident, is the suspected killer.

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27 Jan: Thousands of people have reported feeling a magnitude 4.5 earthquake near the capital this afternoon

27 Jan: A person's moderately injured after a ute drove off State Highway 6 and crashed - on Lower Buller Gorge Road

27 Jan: A teenager is due in court after a woman was found dead in Selwyn overnight

27 Jan: Three people have been injured in a car crash on State Highway 1 in Marlborough

27 Jan: One person has died and another has been arrested after an overnight incident at Burnham, in the Selwyn District

26 Jan: Emergency services are cleaning up human waste spilled out of a rolled truckload of portaloos on State Highway 1, north of Timaru - but it's not as bad as first announced

26 Jan: A man's appearing in court - after a kidnapping incident in Blenheim over the weekend

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