Police have charged a 14-year-old girl with murder after a 10-year-old girl was brutally killed in north-west New South Wales on Wednesday morning.
Emergency services were called to a property at Gunnedah about 7:15am, following reports the 10-year-old girl had suffered serious injuries.
She died at the scene.
Officers arrested the 14-year-old, and she is being held at Gunnedah Police Station, where she has been refused bail.
The teen will appear before a children's court on Thursday.
Gunnedah is situated in the heart of the Namoi Valley on the Oxley Highway and is just over 430 kilometres from Sydney.
The town has a population of about 13,000 people.
The local council said in a statement: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family. We are a strong and tight-knit community — and together we will support the family and our community through this."
Editor's note: This story has been altered to follow instructions from a court suppression order
