One person has died, and two people are in a critical condition following a stabbing in western Sydney.
Police were called to Merrylands Road in Merrylands just after 10am on Tuesday, with witnesses telling police a man had stabbed multiple people before fleeing on foot. The incident is being treated as a random attack.
Paramedics treated three people, however one died at the scene. The person is yet to be formally identified. Two others, a man and woman in their 20s, were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Nine News said the man who was critically injured suffered a stab wound to his neck, while the woman was stabbed in her chest and abdomen.
A man was arrested after a brief manhunt on nearby Smythe Street, also in Merrylands, and has been taken to Granville Police Station.
The attack took place in or outside Bina’s Nepalese grocery store on Merrylands Road, just doors down from Granville MP Julia Finn’s office. Medical equipment remains strewn on the ground outside.
Joseph Roussini, 59, called triple zero after hearing a woman “screaming for her life”.
“I could see a man and a lady coming out of the shop, and the man was holding the lady by the neck, and there was blood pouring out of her neck, and he was trying to stop the bleeding,” he said.
“[She] was in a terrible state.”
He said bystanders rushed to help. He said every “second felt like a year” waiting for paramedics, with multiple ambulances arriving.
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Amber Schultz is a crime and justice reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via X or email.