SYDNEY: Two men have been charged with murder following separate fatal stabbings in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Sunday (March 9).
The NSW Police Force said in a statement on Monday that emergency services were called to reports of a concern for welfare at a house in the western Sydney suburb of Concord shortly after midday on Sunday and arrived to find a 37-year-old man with a stab wound to his chest.
He was treated by ambulance paramedics, but died at the scene.
A second man, aged 41, was arrested at the home and taken to a police station where he was charged with murder.
Later on Sunday, police officers were deployed to a campsite near the small town of Woolbrook, 320 km north of Sydney, where they were told two men were involved in an altercation before one was allegedly stabbed several times in the chest and neck.
The victim, believed to be aged in his 50s, died at the scene and a 43-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder. - Xinhua
