A GIRL has been found dead with her throat slashed at a home on the Gold Coast in Australia.
Emergency services rushed to the scene but the 10-year-old couldn’t be saved.
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Emerald Lakes, where the girl was found dead
A parent is said to have made the shock discovery.
She was found just after 6pm at a home in Emerald Lakes, Carrara.
A crime scene has been established as cops launch a major probe into how the horror unfolded.
Pictures circulating on social media show several cop cars and an ambulance with their lights flashing on a street.
A house is cordoned off by police tape as multiple people are seen talking in and around the crime scene.
A tent was put up beside the ambulance shortly before 8pm, according to the Courier Mail.
The Queensland newspaper reported members of a forensics team in blue suits were seen entering the property.
A resident was in shock.
She told local media: “It’s normally very quiet around here.
“I can’t believe it.”
Emerald Lakes is located about a 15-minute drive in land from the popular Surfers Paradise.
It’s beside Carrara Stadium, which hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and about an hour’s drive south of Brisbane.
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