Police investigating after finding two bodies in Burwood
Police say they are still trying to determine if the deaths of a man and woman in Sydney's Inner West involved domestic violence. Yesterday, two bodies were discovered at a Burwood apartment complex, with one appearing to have sustained stab wounds.
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00:00But we know that it was about quarter to 10 or exactly this time yesterday when police
00:06arrived here at this complex in Burwood following reports of concerns for welfare.
00:11Now when they arrived, they found the body of a man believed to be in his 20s or 30s
00:15lying in the courtyard in the center of the complex behind me.
00:19Now severe damage to the man's ankles indicate that he could have fallen from one of the
00:22balconies above.
00:24As investigations continued, police were led upstairs into one of the apartments where
00:28they found a body of a woman also in her 20s or 30s with multiple stab wounds.
00:34Now it's currently unclear, as you mentioned, whether this is an incident of domestic violence
00:37and whether they were known to each other or whether it was a murder-suicide, however
00:42investigations are ongoing.
00:43It's desolate scenes here in Burwood this morning, there's an overcast sky and very
00:47few people out on the street.
00:49In what's usually quite a bustling part of Burwood, we're just across from the library
00:53and the local town hall, there are a few police lingering around on the streets just doing
00:57the laps of the block.
01:00Now in the broader context, this would, if it turns out to be an incident of domestic
01:03violence, be the latest incident in a year that's already seen unprecedented levels of
01:08domestic violence, especially domestic violence against women in New South Wales and Australia.
01:13Now the man and the woman are yet to be formally identified, so police are yet to confirm whether
01:17it is domestic violence, but definitely sombre scenes here in Burwood regardless.