A local girl rides her bicycle past the scene of a stabbing attack at a home in Cairns

A local girl rides her bicycle past the scene of a stabbing attack at a home in Cairns, northern Queensland, December 19, 2014. Eight children have been killed and a woman who was mother to seven of them was injured in the northern Australian city of Cairns, police said on Friday, in what several media outlets reported was a mass stabbing. REUTERS/Stringer (AUSTRALIA – Tags: CRIME LAW) ATTENTION EDITORS – NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. AUSTRALIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA