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Topic:Stabbings
Emergency services were called to the car park of a Villawood unit complex about 7am on Sunday.   (ABC News)
NSW Police are investigating after a man was found stabbed, burned, beaten, and tied up in the boot of a car in a suspected kidnapping in Sydney's west.
Emergency services were called to the car park of a unit complex in Villawood about 7am on Sunday following reports of a concern for welfare.
Police were called to the car park in Sydney's west. (ABC News)
The ABC understands a member of the public contacted police after they heard a male voice screaming for help from the boot of a white car parked off Woodville Road.
Local officers, who arrived a short time later, found a man tied up in the boot of a Toyota sedan, which had an Uber sticker affixed to its rear windshield.
The 29-year-old man was treated at the scene for stab, burn and assault injuries to his head and leg before being taken to hospital in a stable condition.
Vision from scene shows the man alive, being stretchered into the back of an ambulance with a bloody face.
A single underarm aluminium crutch was also found in the boot of the Toyota sedan.
Police said they believe the man was kidnapped from Military Road in Guildford between 4pm and 5pm on Saturday.
Sources with knowledge of the case have told the ABC the victim is so far not cooperating with police.
Detectives are investigating whether the apparent kidnapping is linked to organised crime. (ABC News)
A crime scene has been established, and detectives are investigating whether the apparent kidnapping is linked to organised crime.
In an unrelated incident, emergency services assisted a mother who accidentally locked her child in her car at the same car park where the incident took place.
The child was uninjured.
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