A man is dead and two are seriously injured after three separate stabbing incidents broke out across Sydney since midnight, sparking three police investigations.
Emergency services were called to a unit in Lethridge Park in Sydney’s north-west at 1.55pm on Sunday.
Paramedics treated a 34-year-old man with stab woulds, but he died at the scene. A 25-year-old man who had also suffered stab wounds was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
A spokesperson for NSW Police said it was too early to say if the men were known to each other, or what may have sparked the incident, but there is no ongoing risk to the public.
Police had attended two other stabbings in western Sydney in overnight.
Emergency services were called to Hoxton Park Road, in Hoxton Park, in the moments after midnight. Police officers discovered a man in his 20s with multiple stab wounds.
Paramedics treated the man for wounds to the chest and back. He was taken to Liverpool hospital in a serious but stable condition.
Shortly after, a group of men forced their way into a house on Oleander Road, in North St Marys, and stabbed an 18-year-old man in the leg before fleeing, police were told.
Paramedics treated the young man for a stab wound to the back of his left thigh, before rushing him to Westmead Hospital in a stable condition.
The three stabbings are being treated as separate incidents.
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Angus Dalton is the science reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via X or email.