An attacker who fatally knifed five people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene.
\nThe assailant was shot by a police officer after he engaged with nine people in the busy Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre, police said.
\n“She discharged a firearm, and that person is now deceased. I am advised that there are five victims who are now deceased as a result of the actions of this offender,” New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke told a press conference.
\nPolice have no indication of the man’s motive. Emergency services were called to the mall just before 4 p.m. (0600 GMT) after the stabbing reports, police said.
\nEight people, including a child, had been taken to hospital, said a New South Wales Ambulance spokesperson.
\nReese Colmenares, an eyewitness who hid in a hardware store with 20 others when people started running out of the mall, said she saw a baby with stab wounds being taken to an ambulance.
\nTwo other witnesses told Reuters they heard shots fired.
\n\u201cEven 20 minutes after people were rushed out of the mall, I saw SWAT teams of people sweeping the surrounding streets,\u201d one witness said.
\nThe other said they saw a woman lying on the ground and took shelter in a jewelry store.
\nAn eyewitness described the police officer shooting the attacker to state broadcaster ABC.
\n“If she did not shoot him, he would have kept going, he was on the rampage,” said the man, who did not give his name. “She went over and was giving him CPR. He had a nice big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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