A couple in their 70s have been critically injured and a man has been shot during a suspected home invasion in northern NSW this morning.
An elderly couple have been critically injured and a man has been shot during a suspected home invasion in northern NSW. Emergency services were called to a rural property at Torrington, about 65 kilometres south-west of Tenterfield, just after midnight.
Police have been told a 75-year-old man and 72-year-old woman were home when a 34-year-old man broke in and allegedly stabbed both with a knife. They say the woman collapsed with a chest wound, while her husband was slashed across his abdomen but managed to call Triple Zero . It will be alleged the younger man was shot by the resident as he attempted to get back into the house.
The couple were treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being flown to Gold Coast Hospital in a critical condition. The younger man was treated at the scene for a gunshot wound and taken by road ambulance to Armidale Hospital under police guard. A crime scene has been established and police say inquiries so far indicate the younger man was not known to the couple.
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