The deaths of two children who drowned in a dam at a south-west Queensland property was a "tragic accident", police say.
Police divers found the bodies of an eight-year-old girl and seven-year-old boy in the dam at the large property at Brookstead near Toowoomba around 7.30am (AEST).
The children's mother reported them missing on Tuesday evening after losing sight of them as they rode around the property on a quad bike.
After a five-hour land search on Tuesday night failed to locate the children, the search resumed early Wednesday involving State Emergency Service volunteers, a helicopter and police.
Toowoomba Acting Superintendent Alan McCarthy said the children's bodies were found submerged in the dam.
He said a dog belonging to the family was found in the vicinity of the dam when police arrived, though reports the dog prompted the search of the dam were false.
"Yes there was a dog seen nearby to the dam after the children were missing but the dam would have been a focus of our search in any case," he said.
The dam, which is about 80 metres by 30 metres in size, is located about one kilometre from where the children were last seen.
Acting Inspector McCarthy said it was unknown how the children came to be in the dam.
He said the dam was located in an area of the property well known to the children but it was unknown if they regularly swam there.
"There is no indication of why they would have ended up in the water," he said.
A police spokeswoman earlier said the children's deaths were being treated as "a tragic accident with no suspicious circumstances".
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