{"id":665202,"date":"2026-05-12T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:42:09","slug":"man-set-alight-at-wollongong-unit-complex-as-police-hunt-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665202\/","title":{"rendered":"Man set alight at Wollongong unit complex as police hunt attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old man is in hospital after he was set on fire at an apartment complex in Wollongong overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a unit on Todd Street at Warrawong about 9pm on Monday following reports that a man had suffered serious burns.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood the man was found with severe burns to his face, chest, neck and arms.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics, a medical helicopter crew and nearby residents treated him at the scene before he was flown to Sydney&#8217;s Royal North Shore Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff confirmed on Tuesday morning that he was in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police were told the man had been set alight by another person, who fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene has since been established, and detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are appealing for public assistance and have urged anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man is in hospital after he was set on fire at an apartment complex in Wollongong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-665202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665202","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=665202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}