Overview
- NSW Police launched Strike Force Bushfield to investigate the violent abduction and suspected murder of a 45-year-old mother in Sydney's southwest.
- The woman was forcibly taken from her Bankstown home by up to five masked intruders, who assaulted her two sons, leaving her 8-year-old son in a coma after surgery for serious head injuries.
- Approximately an hour after the kidnapping, a body believed to be the woman's was found inside a burnt-out SUV in Beverly Hills, though formal identification is pending.
- Police are treating the incident as a targeted attack with no known links to organized crime, and the family is not previously known to authorities.
- Authorities are conducting a large-scale CCTV canvass and urging the public to share any information or footage to assist in identifying the perpetrators.