Police have released an image of a red scooter as they attempt to piece together the final hours of two young boys found dead near the Ross River in north Queensland.
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The bodies of three-year-old Jhulio Sariago and five-year-old Barak Austral were discovered early on February 26 near the bank of the river in the Townsville suburb of Cranbrook.
Hundreds of mourners gathered on the bank of the Ross River on Sunday to farewell the brothers remembered as “beautiful angels” taken too soon.
The boys' mother Leeann Eatts has been inundated with messages of support from friends, family and strangers on Facebook after Ms Eatts wrote a poem read on her behalf at the memorial and traditional smoking ceremony.
Detectives were attempting to piece together a timeline of events over the 10 hours from when the boys were last seen leaving the yard of their home to when their bodies were discovered.
The timeline will form part of the detailed police report for the coroner. Police are asking for anyone who saw the red scooter on pathways around Rossiter Park in Cranbrook any time on Monday, February 25, to come forward.
Police did not specify what connection the scooter had to the boys, but said it was relevant to their attempt to track the boy's movements.
Their bodies will now be taken to Darwin, where they were born, for burial.
A fund-raising page set up asking for donations to assist in the cost of moving them had raised more than $12,000 by Sunday.
Police did not specify what connection the scooter had to the boys, but said it was relevant to their attempt to track the boy's movements.
