A young Australian man’s hand has been severed after he was attacked by a group of men during a brutal home invasion.<\/p>\n
Police allege four men armed with machetes forced their way into a house in Greenacre, western Sydney, in the early hours of Saturday morning. <\/p>\n
A 23-year-old man confronted the men and was struck by a machete which severed his hand, Bankstown police superintendent Rodney Hart said. <\/p>\n
“His father came out of the main bedroom and was also confronted by the offenders, who demanded cash,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They forced him back into the main bedroom where a safe was located, it was opened by the victim and a large sum of money has been stolen.”<\/p>\n
The alleged offenders then fled the scene in a dark-coloured SUV before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n
The man was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital where he is having surgery. <\/p>\n
Police believed it was a targeted attack on the home due to a large amount of money from a business being held there.<\/p>\n
The family is well known in the community and Hart called for assistance to find the alleged offenders.<\/p>\n
“This is a brutal, violent attack which is extremely traumatic for the family,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There is no indication that this is related to any organised crime. <\/p>\n
“Somehow these people were aware that there may have been cash on the premises and that’s what’s been targeted, but unfortunately this has been a brutal home invasion where this young man will have received life-altering injuries.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a man is in hospital and another is in custody following an alleged stabbing in Sydney’s inner west.<\/p>\n
Just after 10.30pm on Friday, emergency services were called to a unit in Newtown, after reports a 32-year-old man had been stabbed by a 54-year-old man who was known to him.<\/p>\n
Paramedics treated the stabbed man before he was taken to hospital in a stable condition. <\/p>\n
The older man was also treated for minor injuries before he was taken to Newtown police station. <\/p>\n
The stabbing incidents come after a shocking home invasion earlier in the week in Torrington, a small town in northern NSW, which has left an elderly couple fighting for their lives.<\/p>\n
In the early hours of Thursday, a 75-year-old man shot the alleged attacker in the abdomen after he and his wife suffered stab wounds during a break in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Australian man’s hand has been severed after he was attacked by a group of men during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-465112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}