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4 teenagers charged over violent southwest Sydney home invasion

Sydney, May 5 (UNI) Four teenagers have been arrested and charged after a 17-year-old was hospitalized following a violent home invasion in southwest Sydney, Australia early Monday.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a home invasion in the suburb of St Andrews, 37 km southwest of central Sydney, at about 12:30 a.m. on Monday.
Officers attended the scene and arrested four males -- two aged 14, a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old.
A second 17-year-old boy, a resident of the home, was treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics before being taken to a nearby hospital in a stable condition.
News Corp Australia newspapers reported that he sustained facial injuries.
Two more teenage occupants of the home were uninjured.
NSW Police said that all four males who were arrested at the scene have been charged with one count each of aggravated break and enter and committing a serious indictable offense. All four were denied bail.
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