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WA Police seek information after deadly trap set on Jarrahdale bush track
Detectives from the WA Police Force are seeking urgent information to catch a perpetrator who laid a deadly wire trap on a bush track near Perth.
A metal wire was suspended about chest and neck height between two trees across the track, and at least one person has been seriously injured.
Armadale detectives reported that a 47-year-old man who rode his mountain bike along the track was struck by the wire and sustained a serious laceration and bruising across his right bicep.
The police believe that several more victims may have been hurt by the trap, and police are asking for them to come forward and make a report.
The cowardly trap was laid along a bush track near Jubb Road in Jarrahdale some time around Tuesday, 24 June.
The track is less than an hour from Perth.
Anyone with information about the person responsible for installing the trap has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers, while anyone with footage or images from the area can upload evidence to a digital link.
Social media commenters from the Armadale community called out the trap as 'attempted manslaughter' that could have killed someone.
'Take this one seriously, this doesn't discriminate. Literally targeting anyone with the intent to kill at that height,' one commenter wrote.
It is not the first wire trap set near the western capital.
An incident in 2019 saw a 17-year-old was lashed across his legs when attempting to remove a steel cable strung across a suburban street.
Another trap was set in December 2016, with barbed wire strung across a street in High Wycombe.
In that incident a teenage girl was trapped in the wire while on an evening jog.
