6 killed in Sydney shopping centre stabbing attack, suspect shot dead by police
Police say there is 'nothing at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology'
6 killed in Sydney shopping centre stabbing attack, suspect shot dead by police
Sydney: A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping centre Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also injured in the attack.
The suspect stabbed nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters. Six of the victims and the suspect died. Police had no specific details on the condition of the injured.
Cooke said he believed that the suspect acted alone, and he was “content that there is no continuing threat.” He said officials didn’t know who the offender was.
“This is quite raw,” he said, and a “lengthy and precise” investigation was just beginning. He said there was “nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.”
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