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A 38-year-old man is in intensive care fighting for life after a hit-run in Perth's south-east.

Police said a dark-coloured vehicle travelling north along Albany Highway at Maddington allegedly struck a pedestrian near a 7-Eleven about 7.30pm yesterday.

The man was taken to Royal Perth Hospital with serious injuries and admitted into the intensive care unit.

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The driver of the vehicle failed to render assistance and drove away, police said.

The Major Crash Unit has launched an investigation and is urging any witnesses, or anyone who was driving on Albany Highway at the time of the crash, to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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A neighbour has recalled how his instincts kicked in when he heard the cries of children coming from a burning home in western Sydney, where three young lives were lost.

Police allege that 28-year-old father Dean Heasman had barricaded seven children inside the Freeman Street home in Lalor Park on Sunday as flames took hold.

While emergency services were on their way, Jarrod Hawkins, who lives on the street, rushed head-first into the flames. 

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"I didn't realise what was happening, I just heard the kids crying and instincts took over," he told 9News.

"The house was well on fire, it was smoky, couldn't see a thing.

"I just followed the voices, touched the wall and just found my way through until I could find the kids."

Hawkins went back and forth pulling out four children one-by-one; three boys aged four, seven and 11, and one girl aged nine.

He also grabbed Heasman and a 29-year-old woman who were inside.

But the flames quickly engulfed the home and killed three other children – two boys aged two and six, and a five-month-old baby girl. 

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"There was nothing I could do. I was stuck," Hawkins said.

Police allege that Heasman kept pushing the children inside the burning home and prevented emergency services from rescuing them.

"Never in my life would I think I would want to hurt my kids. It's outrageous to me, it's disgusting," Hawkins said.

Police said the children were yet to be formally identified and post mortem examinations would determine their causes of death.

Heasman remains in hospital in an induced coma under police guard as investigations into the fatal blaze continue.

No charges have been laid. 

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The woman and four children each remain in hospital in a stable condition. Hawkins walked away with minor cuts and burns to his foot.

The community has labelled Hawkins a "hero" but he has rejected that title. 

"I was in the right place in the wrong time, I was in a situation where I could help," he said.

"I'll never forget something like that."

A pile of flowers and teddy bears outside the home is growing as the community rallies around the children, donating to a fundraising page to support them moving forward. 

Premier Chris Minns said his government would support the surviving family members after they suffered an "unfathomable" tragedy.

Police have appealed to anyone who may have information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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A display device that shows off floating, lit-up shoes has been pulled off the shelves at Culture Kings over magnet fears.

The CXF-22 and CXF-24B Sneaker Basel Magnetic Levitation Sneaker Displays have been hit with a recall notice.

The shoes contain magnets in the heels, which makes them levitate in the display.

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But Product Safety Australia said the magnets were "very strong" and needed to be kept at least 16cm apart.

"The sneaker display's magnets can forcefully attract, break, splinter and emit sparks, posing a laceration hazard," the recall notice said.

"In addition, when two or more high-powered magnets are swallowed, either accidentally or intentionally, the ingested magnets can attract each other and become lodged in the digestive system.

"This can lead to perforations, twisting and/or blockage of the intestines that can lead to infection and death.

"Injuries have occurred in Australia and the USA."

Customers who have purchased one of the displays should stop using it and keep the magnets apart.

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If the magnets have come together, do not try to separate them.

Purchasers are entitled to a full refund, and Culture Kings will publish details of how to obtain it, PSA said.

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Millions of people across southeastern Australia are being warned to expect a new cold snap from the weekend, driven by frigid air dragged from Antarctica.

Th cold front is forecast to sweep across Victoria, southern New South Wales, the ACT, Tasmania and parts of South Australia from Saturday.

A high-pressure system will quickly follow in its path and remain over southern Australia until at least mid-next week, prolonging this cold outbreak.

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Temperatures will be two to four degrees below average across multiple states from late this week due to strong winds caused by a low-pressure system in the Tasman Sea.

The resulting wind chill will mean temperatures feeling much colder than the mercury says it is.

The strong winds are expected to take the chilly air as far north as southeastern Queensland later next week.

Meanwhile, outback regions in SA, NSW and Queensland received heavy rain over the weekend.

In the 24 hours to yesterday morning, falls of 25mm to 99mm were recorded over a big stretch of inland areas, with the town of Menindee in far western NSW recording its wettest July day in 138 years.

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The downpour was caused by a cut-off upper-level low-pressure system meeting atmospheric moisture flowing from the east, and the impact of unusually warm sea temperatures.

South Australia recorded generally lighter falls but several spots well north of Adelaide saw 10mm or more.

A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine has killed at least 20 people and injured more than 50, officials say, with one missile striking a large children's hospital in the capital, Kyiv, where emergency crews searched rubble for casualties.

The Russian barrage targeted five Ukrainian cities with more than 40 missiles of different types, hitting apartment buildings and public infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post.

Strikes in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, killed 10 people and injured 37, in what the head of city administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, said was a massive missile attack.

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At the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, rescuers were searching for people under the rubble of a partially collapsed wing of the facility.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 16 people, seven of them children, were injured.

"It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing," he said, on social media.

Vsevolod Dorofieiev, the senior instructor of a volunteer medical unit, said some people had died but he did not say how many or whether they were children or adults.

The attack comes on the eve of a three-day NATO summit in Washington, which will look at how to reassure Ukraine of the alliance's unwavering support and offer Ukrainians hope that their country can come through Europe's biggest conflict since World War II.

At the children's hospital, a two-storey building was partly destroyed. On the hospital's main 10-storey building, windows and doors were blown out and walls were blackened. Blood spattered the floor in one room.

The intensive care unit, operating theatres and oncology departments were all damaged, officials said.

Medical personnel and local people searched for children and medical workers. Volunteers formed a line, passing bricks and other debris to each other.

Smoke still rose from the building, and volunteers and emergency crews worked in protective masks.

The attack forced the hospital to shut down and evacuate. Some mothers carried their children away on their backs. Others waited in the courtyard with their children as calls to doctors' phones rang unanswered.

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A few hours after the initial strike, another air raid siren sent many mothers with their children hurrying to the hospital's shelter.

Led by a flashlight through the shelter's dark corridors, mothers carried their bandaged children in their arms and medics carried them on gurneys. Volunteers handed out candy in an effort to calm the children.

Marina Ploskonos' 4-year-old son had surgery for cervical spine tuberculosis last Friday.

"My child is terrified," she said.

"This shouldn't be happening, it's a children's hospital," she said, bursting into tears.

Ukraine's Security Service said it found wreckage from a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile at the site and had opened criminal proceedings on war crime charges.

The Kh-101 is an air-launched missile that flies low to avoid detection by radar systems. Ukraine said it shot down 11 of 13 Kh-101 missiles launched by Russia on Monday.

Hospitals and other medical facilities are protected from military strikes under international law unless they are being used for military operations.

The International Criminal Court's founding charter says it is a war crime to intentionally attack buildings "dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives".

Late last month, the court issued arrest warrants for Russia's former defense minister and its military chief of staff for attacking Ukraine's electricity network.

Czech President Petr Pavel said the hospital attack was "inexcusable" and that he expected at the NATO summit to see a consensus that Russia was "the biggest threat for which we must be thoroughly prepared".

Russia's Defence Ministry said the strikes targeted Ukrainian defense plants and military air bases and were successful.

It denied aiming at any civilian facilities and claimed without offering evidence that pictures from Kyiv indicated the damage was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.

Since early in the war that is stretching into its third year, Russian officials have regularly claimed that Moscow's forces never attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, despite what officials in Kyiv say and Associated Press reporting on the ground.

Elsewhere in Kyiv, the heaviest Russian bombardment of the capital in almost four months killed seven people and injured 25, officials said.

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About three hours after the first strikes, more missiles hit Kyiv and partially destroyed a private medical center. Four people were killed there, Ukraine's Emergency Service said.

The daylight attacks included Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, one of the most advanced Russian weapons, the Ukrainian air force said. The Kinzhal flies at 10 times the speed of sound, making it hard to intercept.

City buildings shook from the blasts. An entire section of a residential multi-storey building in one district of Kyiv was destroyed, officials said. Three electricity substations were damaged or completely destroyed in two districts of Kyiv, energy company DTEK said.

The head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andrii Yermak, said the attack occurred at a time when many people were in the city's streets.

Klitschko said official assessments of the attack's consequences were still being carried out.