‘Level of violence unheard of’: police suspect body in burnt-out car in Sydney was allegedly kidnapped woman

Woman's two sons in hospital with one in induced coma, as police say they strongly believe' kidnapping was targeted

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Police fear a body in a burnt-out car in Sydney's south overnight is that of a Bankstown woman allegedly abducted from a home on Thursday, in what they have called a horrendous" crime of unprecedented" violence.

Emergency services attended a residential street in Beverly Hills at about 11.30pm on Thursday night, after reports of a car fire.

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