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Elderly Tenterfield couple stabbed, alleged intruder shot during home invasion
Key takeaways
- 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 (000).
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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.
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