7NEWS live updates: Teen injured in Sydney stabbing attack, disturbing discovery in police chase

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One person has died and six people have been hospitalised due to carbon monoxide poisoning in Sydney‘s northwest.

Police and fire crews responded to reports of a gas leak at Haveli Indian restaurant on Garfield Rd in Riverstone about 9.20am on Tuesday.

One person has died.

A member of the public and five police officers have been taken to Blacktown Hospital in a stable condition.

Read more below.

A man sent threatening letters to two hotels Sydney’s CBD, prompting police to ask for public assistance to help find the offender.

The man was seen approaching two buildings on Martin Place and Hickson Rd on August 27 and September 2, and attaching multiple envelopes containing threatening messages to the buildings.

It’s unclear what the messages were but police seized the letters for forensic examination.

Investigations continue and police are asking for help identifying a man they believe may be able to assist them.

He is described as being Asian/Indian subcontinental in appearance, aged in his 20s with a moustache, beard and short black hair.

The man was wearing a black checkered long sleeve shirt, black pants, black running shoes, a black shoulder bag and a boombox over his shoulder.

Anyone who was in the same area between 10.30am on August 27 and 11pm on September 2 has been urged to contact Sydney City Police Station or Crime Stoppers.

A man has been seriously injured as he was stabbed while asleep in a Brisbane home, with another man now charged over the brutal attack.

Police say a man allegedly broke into a home on Mollison St, South Brisbane, and stabbed a 27-year-old man in the torso while he was sleeping about 5.15am on Saturday.

The 25-year-old alleged offender then allegedly poured petrol on the victim before he was interrupted by another person inside the home.

He then fled the premises.

The victim was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition where he remains.

Police arrested the 25-year-old offender near a shopping centre in Morayfield at 9.30am on Monday.

He was charged with one count each of attempted murder and enter dwelling with intent.

The men were allegedly known to each other, police said.

The matter is expected to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

A series of earthquakes hit regional NSW overnight and on Tuesday morning.

The first, a magnitude 3.8 quake, was recorded in the Orana region about 11pm on Monday according to Geoscience Australia.

Several hours later at 2.22am a 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck ​

​Bulahdelah about 7.49am on Tuesday.

More than 130 people reported feeling tremors.

Some Muswellbrook locals questioned if the quake could have been triggered by mining activity in the area.

“Most of the mines are along the fault line sometimes when they are blasting it causes an earthquake, you will find the epicentre is either right in the mine or close by,” one person wrote on social media.

“Open cut coal mines everywhere around Muswellbrook,” another said.

It’s unclear if any of the quakes caused any building damage.

A woman has been charged after a cyclist was killed in an alleged hit-and-run in Melbourne’s north.

The 40-year-old man was standing next to his bicycle in the bike lane on Moreland Rd, Coburg, when he was struck on August 24.

He was taken to hospital with severe internal injuries and a broken neck but could not be saved.

The driver allegedly fled the scene.

On Monday police arrested a 40-year-old woman at a home in Lower Templestowe.

She was charged with failing to stop at the scene of an accident, failing to render assistance, failing to report a collision to police and driving while suspended.

The woman will appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.

Detectives also arrested a 61-year-old man at a home in Abbotsford.

He was interviewed and released pending further enquiries.

Police are still searching for the vehicle they believe was involved in the incident - a white 2016 Audi Q5 SUV with possible visible damage to both the front and passenger side.

“The investigation remains ongoing,” police said.

Anyone with any information has been urged to come forward.

Police are appealing for help following the death of a woman in a unit fire on the Central Coast region of New South Wales last month.

The 77-year-old’s body was found in the lounge room of a single-level unit on Melissa Close in Bateau Bay about 9.30pm on August 24.

Police are treating the woman’s death as “suspicious” and believe she died at the home before it was set on fire.

The day after the blaze, a 26-year-old relative of the woman was charged with property related offences and remains before the court.

Investigations are continuing and detectives are appealing to the public for any assistance.

Those with information or dashcam footage/CCTV are urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

Filming is underway for Chris Hemsworth’s new action-thriller on the Gold Coast.

There was plenty of activity at the Village Roadshow Studios in Oxenford on Tuesday for the 42-year-old’s upcoming movie Subversion.

Set on a submarine, the homegrown movie star will play a naval commander who finds himself blackmailed into carrying illegal cargo across international waters.

Directed Patrick Vollrath, it will also star Australian actor David Wenham and English actress Lily James.

There was no sign of Hemsworth on set on Tuesday.

Hundreds of locals have been employed as cast and crew, with the film expected to inject $63 million into the local economy.

A man allegedly armed with a loaded gun has been arrested following a police chase in a stolen car across Melbourne’s northwest.

Police saw a Mercedes speeding along the Nepean Hwy at Brighton East about 12.15am on Tuesday.

Officers attempted to stop the allegedly stolen car however the driver refused to pull over and kept driving.

Police followed the Mercedes until the driver dumped the car in the carpark of a business on Rosamund Rd in Maribyrnong and ran off.

“As the man was running from the scene, he allegedly threw a bag into bushes on a vacant block,” Victoria Police said.

Officers managed to catch up to the 22-year-old man and arrested him.

The Dog Squad also managed to locate the dumped bag which contained an allegedly loaded a gun and cash.

Police say the Mercedes was allegedly stolen from a home on Cairnlea on August 2.

The man from Truganina was charged with a series of offences including the prohibited possesion of a firearm, theft of a motor vehicle and driving as a learner while unsupervised.

He was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court in January.

A stolen luxury car has been completely destroyed by fire in Sydney’s southwest.

Police found a black Audi sedan parked on Bridges Rd, Moorebank, up in flames about 1.40am on Tuesday.

Fire crews managed to put out the blaze in about an hour.

No one was inside the car at the time.

Police checks revealed the car was reported stolen from Moorebank on Saturday.

No links have so far been established between the car and any other incidents.

There was another car fire in Sydney overnight, with police and fire crews attending a blaze on Franklin St in Parramatta about 2.20am

The car was in the driveway of a home when it caught fire, with the flames spreading to the front of the home.

Fire crews managed to extinguish the blaze, with the three people inside the home at the time uninjured.

Examinations revealed the fire started in the engine bay due to an electrical fault.

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