Man, child found dead at camping ground on Sunshine Coast

The bodies of a man and a child have been found in a car on the Sunshine Coast in a suspected murder-suicide.

The 63-year-old accused was extradited from Victoria as a suspect in the 1986 murder. Source: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

Queensland Police are investigating the circumstances behind the death of a man and child whose bodies were found in a car on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.

Detectives are treating the matter as a murder-suicide.

The bodies were found in a car at Roys Road camping ground in Coochin Creek. Source: Google Maps

"At this stage, detectives are treating the death of the child as suspicious and the man's death as non-suspicious," a Queensland Police spokesperson said. 

The bodies were found at about 8am, inside a vehicle at the Roys Road camping ground on the banks of Coochin Creek in the Beerburrum East State Forest.

It's understood the bodies were found by council workers. 

The relationship of the two individuals is not yet known and investigations are continuing.

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