Third night of rioting in Sydney suburb

SYDNEY - Police and rioters have clashed again in a Sydney suburb in the third night of battles sparked by the death of two teenagers after a police car chase.

The two teenagers died when the stolen car they were in hit a tree during a police chase at Macquarie Fields in Sydney's south-west on Friday night.

The driver of the stolen car, who police say is known to them, fled the scene and has not been found.

In the third successive night of clashes, about 100 police were pelted with Molotov cocktails and rocks overnight.

Police said one officer suffered a hand injury and three people were arrested during several hours of clashes, but the area was calm again by about 2am (midnight NZ time) today.

Jamie Rayward, father of one of the teenagers killed, 17-year-old Dyllan Rayward, has blamed police for unnecessarily chasing the car which ploughed into a tree, also killing 19-year-old Matthew Robertson.

"Why chase a car, the car is totalled and Dyllan and Matt are dead -- for what?," Mr Rayward told the Nine Network yesterday.

Three men were in the car which sped away when it recognised an unmarked police car on Friday night, police said.

Police gave chase and less than a minute later the stolen car hit a tree.

Several police officers were injured, and a man and a woman were arrested and charged with affray and assaulting police, after street battles on Friday and Saturday nights.

Youths hurled rocks and abuse at police as they worked to free the bodies at the crash site on Eucalyptus Drive at about 11pm on Friday.

On Saturday night, in another Macquarie Fields street, a group of up to 30 people pelted police with rocks and bricks as they responded to a call that rocks were being thrown at cars.

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford said the attacks on police would be investigated by a new taskforce called Loudon, comprising officers from throughout the Greater Metropolitan Region.

NSW Premier Bob Carr yesterday described the attack on police as disgraceful.

"I feel sorry for the police officers ...," he told reporters.

Youths from the area appeared on television yesterday challenging the police to return, with one saying "There's plenty more to come, and we'll be coming after you (the police)".

- AAP