SYDNEY, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- A woman has been hospitalized with serious injuries following a shooting at a western Sydney home in the early hours of Friday.
Police officers were deployed to reports of shots fired at the home in Villawood, 21 km west of central Sydney, around 1 a.m. on Friday and arrived to find a 50-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Officers rendered first aid until ambulance paramedics arrived and treated the woman at the scene before she was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
A police statement said that officers established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the incident. ■