A woman has died and a 72-year-old man is under police guard in hospital after reports of an assault at a home in the Nambucca Valley locality of Congarinni.
Emergency services were called to a house on Corella Close, Congarinni, about 11am on Thursday, 5 November.
Congarinni is a rural locality west of Macksville, about 25km southwest of Nambucca Heads.
Officers from Mid North Coast Police District arrived to find a woman, and a 72-year-old man armed with a knife.
NSW Ambulance paramedics assessed the woman, but she died at the scene.
Police were confronted by the man and, after a struggle with officers, he was arrested.
He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital under police guard with a number of injuries, which are believed to be self-inflicted.
Police set up a crime scene and have started inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
The woman is yet to be formally identified, but is believed to be aged in her 70s.
Investigations are ongoing.
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