MORNING BRIEFING: The Red Cross announces a doubling of bushfire relief grants to $20,000 for residents whose homes were destroyed, while a memorial grows for the four children killed in a horror crash in Oatland.
Hundreds of flowers, balloons and other gifts have been left overnight in memory of four children who were killed in a horror crash at Oatlands, in western Sydney.driven by a man allegedly who had a high-range blood alcohol reading and drove through a red light.
Daniel Abdallah and his wife Leila were parents to three of the children — they laid flowers at the crash site yesterday.A man has been charged over the alleged attempted suffocation of a baby and sexual assault of a woman in Sydney's west yesterday. NSW Police said about 12:30pm, officers were called to a domestic-related incident in Schofield where they arrested a 22-year-old man.
Officers alleged the man attempted to suffocate the child twice and that he choked and sexually assaulted the woman twice earlier that day.
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