{"id":804469,"date":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804469\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","slug":"kogarah-bay-man-critical-condition-following-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804469\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogarah Bay man critical condition following assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition following a reported assault in Sydney\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Ambulance say they were called to John St at Kogarah Bay about 3.35pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 20s has been assaulted and is in a critical condition, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Police told NewsWire an operation is underway on John St and they urged residents to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice remain on the scene,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said on social media that roads have been blocked in the area around Brighton and John Streets due to an incident at an apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Police are expected to provide an update on the incident soon. <\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/sydney\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Sydney\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition following a reported assault in Sydney\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[377709,377715,377707,377579,377722,377716,377718,377713,377710,377712,377711,377717,377719,24278,64,63,377721,377723,4082,377720,377714,8280,11554,44,46634,187436,57808,1158,40555,36568,1314,670,377706,377724,376817,377708,46862],"class_list":["post-804469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-south","tag-3-35pm","tag-a-critical-condition","tag-a-man","tag-a-reported-assault","tag-a-spokesman-said-nsw","tag-a-spokesman-said-residents","tag-a-young-man","tag-an-apartment-building-nsw-police","tag-an-assault","tag-an-incident","tag-an-operation","tag-an-update","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brighton-and-john-streets","tag-his-20s","tag-hospital","tag-john-st","tag-kogarah-bay","tag-life","tag-man","tag-news","tag-newswire","tag-newswire-news","tag-nsw-ambulance","tag-police","tag-residents","tag-roads","tag-social-media","tag-sydney","tag-the-area","tag-the-incident","tag-the-scene","tag-thursday-a-man","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804469","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=804469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}