A 65-year-old woman is in hospital with severe burns and her son has been arrested after turning himself in following a house fire.
Police claim he set fire to a house near the NSW town of Young in a suspected case of domestic violence.
The home’s windows were blown out and roof caved in after the fire.
“Police found a 65-year-old woman suffering life-threatening burns,” Inspector Adrian Matthews said.
It’s understood she has burns to 90 per cent of her body and that a family member tried to help by placing her in a bath full of ice.
The fire broke out at 1.30pm today in Bribbaree, 50 kilometres north-west of Young in rural NSW.
Police launched an urgent manhunt for her 42-year-old son.
Hours later he handed himself in at Parkes police station, about 110 kilometres north of the burnt-out home.
No charges have been laid.
