Man killed and two fighting for life in ‘random’ triple stabbing attack in Sydney

A man has been killed and 2 others severely injured successful a “random” stabbing onslaught connected a engaged precocious thoroughfare successful suburban Sydney, police said.

Officers arrived astatine nan segment successful Merrylands, astir 25km westbound of Sydney’s cardinal business district, astatine 10am to be to reports that a man stabbed aggregate group earlier fleeing nan area connected foot.

A man was later arrested from a adjacent thoroughfare and taken to nan Granville Police Station, constabulary said.

Two of nan victims were stabbed wrong a precocious thoroughfare shop, while nan 3rd was attacked connected nan thoroughfare outside.

One victim, a man aged successful his thirties aliases forties, was declared dormant astatine nan scene. Paramedics attended to 2 others – a 22-year-old man and a 47-year-old female – pinch superior injuries earlier they were taken to infirmary successful captious condition.

A weapon astir 25cm agelong was utilized successful nan stabbings, superintendent Simon Glasser said.

“It’s very early successful nan investigation. Police are unaware astatine this constituent what nan motive was. However, it appears it was a random attack,” Mr Glasser told a news conference.

“The alleged offender is known to constabulary for petty crime and a number of intelligence wellness incidents,” he said. “He is not linked to nan reside he was located at. However, he is simply a section to nan area.”

Mr Glasser said nan victims were by themselves connected Merrylands Road erstwhile nan incident occurred and nan 3 were not related to each other.

He said location were a batch of group successful nan area astatine nan clip of nan attack.

“It’s a horrible offence to person taken spot successful Merrylands conscionable anterior to lunchtime pinch tons of group around,” Mr Glasser said of nan “highly confronting” scene.

“It’s very reassuring to spot members of nan organization travel and thief different members of nan organization that needed contiguous assistance.”

Witnesses said they heard screams and later a ample number of police, arsenic good arsenic helicopters, ambulances and constabulary cars, arriving astatine nan scene.

“We walked extracurricular to spot what’s happening. We seen a bunch of people, for illustration a monolithic crowd, and past location was conscionable a woman successful beforehand of nan shop … and there’s conscionable a spot of humor connected nan floor,” an eyewitness told ABC news.

Another eyewitness reportedly said he saw a female pinch a cervix wounded arsenic she was coming retired of a convenience store.

Joseph Roussini, 59, said he called nan emergency services aft he saw a female “screaming for her life”, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. He said he saw a “man and a woman coming retired of nan shop, and nan man was holding nan woman by nan cervix to effort and extremity nan bleeding”.