Man charged with murder after woman found stabbed inside her home, while another man fights for his life after stabbing in an airbnb

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

An elderly man has been charged with the murder of a woman, while another man in his 20s is fighting for his life following separate overnight stabbing attacks across two states.
Homicide Squad detectives were investigating an attack on an elderly woman who was found fatally injured at a house in Coleraine, about 35km from Hamilton, in Victoria's southwest.
Local officers found the 81-year-old woman alive shortly after 1am on Saturday, but she died at the scene.
Police arrested and interviewed an 81-year-old Coleraine man who was known to the victim before charging him with murder on Saturday evening.
He has been remanded in custody and will face the Warrnambool Magistrates Court on Monday.
In a separate incident, two men were also stabbed inside an Airbnb, in Sydney 's west overnight, one of them suffering critical wounds.
Emergency crews were called to a residential unit in Patricia Street, Mays Hill, in the city's inner west, in the early hours of Saturday following reports a man in his 20s had sustained serious injuries.
He was located and treated at the scene by paramedics for an apparent life-threatening knife wound to the torso before being taken to Westmead Hospital.
A man who was also inside the house at the time frantically called police to get help for his critically injured friend.
'My friend's about to die, my friend's about to die,' the man told emergency services, 9News reported.
Police said a second man, of similar age, was found nearby with a wound to his arm. The pair were known to each other.
He was also transported to Westmead, where he remains under police guard.
It is understood the fight between the pair broke out inside the Airbnb while eight others were also at the address.
Locals in the area have been cordoned off from the scene after police declared two crime scenes and shut down Patricia Street.
Locals were blocked from returning to their homes after police cordoned off the area, declared two crime scenes and shut down Patricia Street.
'We're not even allowed back in the apartment building right now because police telling us there was a stabbing on level three,' one local told the publication.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing and anyone with information is being urged to contact police.
The Coleraine incident comes days after an Australia-first knife ban targeting young offenders was introduced.
Victorian parents were urged on Thursday to hand in their children's machetes and knives at police amnesty posts.
A total of 45 stations across the state will host disposal bins set up for the three-month initiative.
Carrying one of the deadly, long and broad-bladed knives is outlawed, while a sales ban with some exemptions is already operating.
1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732)
Lifeline 13 11 14