Two women have been crushed by a fallen tree as wild storms battered Sydney and wider NSW over the weekend.
The women, aged 54 and 70, became trapped beneath the large tree that toppled at a home in Pymble, in Sydney’s upper north shore, just before 4pm on Sunday.
It reportedly took firefighters more than an hour to free the pair from beneath the tree.
The 54-year-old suffered injuries to her shoulder, chest and leg, and the 70-year-old had back injuries.
Both were transported to North Shore Hospital in serious conditions.
A man in his 60s was also hit by the tree but suffered only minor injuries.
The incident happened on the back-end of a week of storms which have lashed much of coastal NSW.
A NSW Ambulance spokeswoman told Channel 7: “Given where they were standing and the limbs of the branches, they were very lucky”.
