Three children under 8 are found dead in California apartment

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Three children under the age of eight were found dead inside a small-town California apartment and a woman with 'self-inflicted' injuries was flown to the hospital, police report. 

The three kids, who were not identified by police, were found around 2pm on Wednesday inside an apartment in Le Grand, about 150 miles east of San Francisco. 

The woman inside the apartment was found with severe 'self-inflicted' wounds and has been transported to the hospital via helicopter in 'life-threatening' condition, police said. 

Police have not released the woman's relationship to the children, but neighbors said a family lived in the apartment. 

The Mercer County Sheriff's Department was called to the Brice Street residence for a welfare check after receiving several reports of a man outside the apartment screaming: 'My kids were killed.' 

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