A cleaner is dead and seven other people have been hospitalised after a gas leak at an Indian restaurant in Sydney’s northwest.
Emergency services were called to the Haveli Indian restaurant in Riverstone on Tuesday morning after reports a man had been poisoned by carbon monoxide, and five police officers who gave him CPR and two other men were then affected by the gas and rushed to hospital.
The man, a 25-year-old contract cleaner, was unable to be revived and died at the scene, while the other seven remain in Blacktown Hospital in a stable condition, Nine News reported.
Six people who live above the restaurant, including three of its chefs, were evacuated unharmed.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Gavin Wood said the cleaner was found by the restaurant owner and his son after they noticed a foul odour, and that they too were exposed while trying to help him.
“Police were there as a result for a concern for welfare as a result of the owner of the premises,” Wood said.
“The owner and the owner’s son located the 25-year-old male, commenced CPR. Police then responded and commenced CPR. In that process, they became exposed in some respects to the odour.”
He said investigations were ongoing into the cause of the leak and Fire and Rescue Superintendent Adam Dewberry said a scientific officer had “isolated an area that they’re interested in around a coolroom area”.
Last month Haveli featured in a viral video that sparked debate about the impact of mass immigration on Riverstone in the lead-up to the March for Australia rallies on August 31.
The now-deleted video, filmed by content creator Dave Right Now who spoke at the Sydney rally, showed how a number of local businesses in the suburn had been replaced by Indian restaurants.
“In this suburb we’re going to see in just this short strip of one kilometre – restaurant after restaurant, shop after shop is changing and becoming very different because levels of immigration have become so large that they’re just transforming the suburb,” Dave Right Now said in the video.
“It’s not all Indian yet – there’s still a kebab place and a pizza place and a few charcoal chicken shops – but we just want to highlight the change that having so many people from one particular culture come in so quickly can have on a suburb.”
Despite stating that he was not racist and just wanted immigrants to adopt Aussie values and culture, Dave Right Now was attacked by radical leftists, large pro-multiculturalism accounts on X like Labor strategist turned pollster Kos Samaras, and the corporate media.
This is an excellent bit of truth telling by Aaron when it comes to urban history, geography, perceived and real culture.
Dave comes from Riverstone.
Riverstone’s story is a microcosm of outer urban Sydney – I am actually commissioned to write a book about how our country has… https://t.co/rXXQ7rZ0Em
— Kos Samaras (@KosSamaras) August 31, 2025
He first solemnly points to Haveli Indian Restaurant.
What monument of Australian culture has been toppled here?
What sacred Aussie icon has been wrenched from Riverstone to make way for samosas?
What will he tell his grandchildren once graced this hallowed corner?
— Aaron Smith (@Aaronsmith333) August 30, 2025
“Bad news for Dave though. No amount of racial profiling, who owns what, will bring back the world he longs for,” wrote Mr Samaras, who regularly celebrates the demographic replacement of White Australians.
Another X user, Aaron Smith, responded to the video by denigrating Australian culture and claiming in a long thread that Dave Right Now was mourning the loss of an “imagined monoculture”.
But hundreds of comments on the video supported the content creator and echoed his concerns about cultural loss and rapid demographic change.
“These people only come here to enrich their lives at Australians expense. They have every intention of retaining and extending their cultures here and not integrating into ours,” said one Aussie commenter.
“Exactly Dave… look at Kellyville (Delhiville), Marsden Park, Box Hill, Schofields and The Ponds. I know this area having grown up there when still just mostly farms and paddocks. It’s disgusting enclaves now. Not Australia…” another said.
Header image: The scene of the gas leak (Nine News).
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