Distraught family members of the eight children massacred in a Cairns home in north Queensland have visited the makeshift memorial to honour them as the woman allegedly responsible their deaths was charged with murder.
A group of about 40 people - made up of the elderly, parents, young children and babies - were seen walking up the road, and were heard screaming and crying in distress and anguish.
Some relatives were so overcome with emotion that they needed to be carried to the site.
They clutched flowers as they stumbled down the street to add to the growing pile - a symbol of the immense grief in the community for the lost lives of the little children.
The mother of seven of the eight children was charged with eight counts of murder on Sunday in a bedside hearing, two days after they were found stabbed to death in a Manoora home on Murray Street.

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The suspect and the deceased children

The father of one of the children and maternal grandmother are inconsolable.

More relatives show despair