An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly using a stolen bulldozer to destroy a house in New South Wales with several people inside it, local media reported on Monday (8 June).
Fifty-six-year old Deborah Kerr and her two daughters were inside the house, in Teralba, south of Newcastle, when she thought she heard a refuse truck arrive at the house, she told local TV reported. They escaped from the house shortly before it was knocked down.
He picked the [bulldozer] bucket up and started to go for the house and we just ran straight out the front door, Kerr said.
Police arrested a 48-year old man at the scene after he allegedly drove the bulldozer towards another man who had been sleeping in a shed in the garden, reports said.
The suspect is expected to be charged with several offences, including an attempted murder, local police said.
Just gob-smacked. Couldnt believe it. Dont get in the way of a bulldozer, do you?, an unidentified neighbour told reporters.
The bulldozer was also driven over several cars, police told reporters.
