A man is charged with attempted murder after an alleged accelerant attack at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, injuring three patients. Police allege the man doused the patients with an accelerant and set one of them on fire.
ABC reports the charge covers two counts of attempted murder. Other outlets describe that three patients were targeted, with one briefly engulfed in flames. The West Australian includes an account from a patient who says he realised he had been doused in petrol and set alight during the incident.
Across the coverage, the focus is on the alleged actions inside the hospital and the resulting injuries to multiple patients, with details of the charges and the number of injured people consistently aligning. The reports do not describe a motive in the information provided, and they frame the events as a matter currently before the courts.
