WA news LIVE: Charges laid over Geraldton shooting

Two men have been charged over a shooting that left another man in hospital and sparked a manhunt in WA’s Mid West yesterday.

Five people were arrested after Geraldton man Ashley Wayne Cameron was shot in the leg in the early hours of Wednesday.

Officers rushed to the scene in Moonyoonooka, about 12 kilometres outside the regional city’s town centre, about 1am, arriving to find Cameron with a wound to his leg.

Later that morning, police arrested five people Hart Street in Utakarra.

Here’s what’s making headlines elsewhere today:

• A commercial aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after issuing an alert that sparked fears of a disaster when one of the two pilots stabbed the other in an apparent attempt to crash the plane.

• Two of the women at the centre of the Sydney Swans sexual assault allegations have been medically assessed and found to be suffering severe trauma-related disorders following events at the Pullman East Melbourne in August.

• Labor is eyeing spending cuts to prove it is being more frugal to offset inflation and tackle internal unease about voter blowback, but influential party figures have claimed the RBA misdiagnosed the source of inflation and is arbitrarily hurting households.

• British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has named Iran as a likely player in the alarming plot against a Royal Air Force base in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, October 1.

Making headlines today is the latest from Mexico, where a verdict date has been set for three men accused of murder over the deaths of two Perth brothers and their American friend.

The grief-stricken parents of Jake and Callum Robinson made an emotional plea to the court as the trial of the three Mexican men neared its conclusion on Wednesday.

The judge set a date for closing arguments next Thursday (Mexico time), and a verdict the following day, which is just hours before Debra and Martin Robinson are due to fly back to Perth after spending the past four weeks in Ensenada for the trial.