Truck driver is ambushed and shot in Sydney – with police investigating whether two nearby car fires are linked to the attack

A truck driver has been ambushed and shot in Sydney’s southwest, with police now investigating whether the brazen attack is linked to two suspicious car fires nearby.

Just after 11.20pm on Monday, the 29-year-old truckie was travelling down Donald Street in Yennora when a car suddenly slammed to a stop in front of him, NSW Police said.

A gunman then leapt out of the car and opened fire on the truck driver, hitting him in the wrist and abdomen, before fleeing the scene.

NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the man at the scene before rushing him to Liverpool Hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.

A short time later, emergency services were called to two separate car fires  – one involving a black Lexus sedan on Dixmude Street in South Granville, and the other on Boundary Road in Chester Hill.

Both fires were extinguished by Fire and Rescue NSW, before police established crime scenes at the two locations.

Police are investigating whether the shooting and car torchings are linked.

Anyone with information or dashcam footage is urged to call Fairfield police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

A 29-year-old truck driver has been shot in a brazen late-night ambush in Yennora

Police are investigating whether the shooting and car torchings are linked