5m agoTue 17 Feb 2026 at 2:17am<\/p>\n
‘Highly confronting’ scene for first responders and witnesses<\/p>\n
“It’s highly confronting. It’s a horrible offence to have taken place in Merrylands just prior to lunchtime with lots of people around,” Superintendent Glasser said.<\/p>\n
“It’s very reassuring to see members of the community come and help other members of the community that needed immediate assistance.”<\/p>\n
Superintendent Glasser credited the work of officers for leading a “successful police operation” in locating the alleged offender swiftly.<\/p>\n
6m agoTue 17 Feb 2026 at 2:15am<\/p>\n
How attack unfolded<\/p>\n
During the stabbing incident, two of the attacks occurred inside a premises, and one was on a footpath on Merrylands Road.<\/p>\n
“As far as we’re aware at this moment, there is no relationship between the three victims,” Superintendent Glasser said.<\/p>\n
“They were by themselves on Merryland Road when this occurred.”<\/p>\n
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Paramedics treated three people for serious injuries, including one man aged in his 30s or 40s who died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The two other people \u2014 a 22-year-old man and 47-year-old woman \u2014 were taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
“As far as we’re aware at this moment, there is no relationship between the three victims,” NSW Police Superintendent Simon Glasser said.<\/p>\n
“They were by themselves on Merryland Road when this occurred.”<\/p>\n
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A crime scene has been established. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Following inquiries, a man was arrested at a nearby address and taken to Granville Police Station.<\/p>\n
“The alleged offender is known to police for petty crime and a number of mental health incidents,” \u00a0Superintendent Glasser said.<\/p>\n
“He is not linked to the address he was located. However, he is a local to the area.”<\/p>\n
A crime scene has been established and an investigation is now underway.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Glasser said police did not know the motive for the attack.<\/p>\n
“It appears it was a random attack,” he said.<\/p>\n
The weapon believed to have been used was a kitchen knife approximately 20 to 30 centimetres in length.<\/p>\n
Vision from the scene captured several emergency service vehicles and personnel, with paramedics appearing to treat two people on stretchers.<\/p>\n
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NSW Police Public Order and Riot Squad officers attended a nearby house after the stabbing. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
The incident happened on a busy Merrylands Road, with part of the road now closed.<\/p>\n
Vision shows police officers searching a nearby property and the surrounding area while talking to locals.<\/p>\n
Stabbing attack ‘tragic’<\/p>\n
Two men working at a nearby tobacco store said the incident was “tragic”.<\/p>\n
“We heard like a scream and then people started running up \u2026 it was very quick after that, just choppers came and a lot of ambulances,” a man, who did not wish to be identified, told ABC News.<\/p>\n
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Emergency services were called about 10am. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Another man said he was inside his shop at the time when he saw a woman talking to police.<\/p>\n
“She guided cops towards the station and then she also guided them towards the other side of the street,” Zak said.<\/p>\n
“We walked outside to see what’s happening, we seen a bunch of people, like a massive crowd, and then there was just a lady in front of the shop \u2026 and there’s just a bit of blood on the floor.”<\/p>\n
Witness describes ‘carnage’<\/p>\n
Another witness, who called police, described the incident as “carnage”.<\/p>\n
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Witnesses in Merrylands told police people were attacked in the busy area. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Joe, who was crossing Merrylands Road, said he saw a woman with a neck injury coming out of a convenience store.<\/p>\n
While Joe contacted police, another bystander called an ambulance.<\/p>\n
“When the police arrived, I noticed that a lady had just slumped down, and she was in a really bad way, and then it took like forever in my mind for the rescue to arrive because I was panicking,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s absolutely terrible. In the middle of the day … when I saw this, I just stopped immediately and just saw this carnage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man has been killed and two other people have been critically injured in a stabbing attack in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,245503,245502,44,2733,4277,27777],"class_list":["post-484816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal-stabbing","tag-merrylands","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}