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SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed 5 group to decease astatine a engaged Sydney shopping halfway Saturday earlier he was fatally shot, constabulary said. Multiple people, including a mini child, were besides injured successful nan attack.
The fishy stabbed 9 group astatine nan Westfield Shopping Centre successful Bondi Junction, which is successful nan city's eastbound suburbs, earlier a constabulary inspector changeable him aft he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters. Five of nan victims and nan fishy died, he said. He had nary circumstantial specifications connected nan information of nan injured.
Cooke said he believed that nan fishy acted alone, and he was "content that location is nary continuing threat." He said officials didn't cognize who nan offender was. "This is rather raw," he said, and a "lengthy and precise" investigation was conscionable beginning.
He said location was "nothing that we are alert of astatine nan segment that would bespeak immoderate motive aliases immoderate ideology." When asked whether officials were ruling retired terrorism, he said: "We're not ruling thing out."
Cooke said nan constabulary inspector, a elder officer, was unsocial erstwhile she confronted nan fishy and engaged him soon aft her presence connected nan scene, "saving a scope of people's lives."
A crowd gathers extracurricular Westfield Shopping Centre successful Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. Media reports opportunity aggregate group person been stabbed and that nan constabulary changeable a personification astatine nan Sydney shopping center.
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Video showed galore ambulances and constabulary cars astir nan shopping center, and group streaming out.
Paramedics were treating patients astatine nan scene.
Witness Roi Huberman, a sound technologist astatine ABC TV successful Australia, told nan web that he sheltered successful a shop during nan incident.
"And abruptly we heard a changeable aliases possibly 2 shots and we didn't cognize what to do," he said. "Then nan very tin personification successful nan shop took america to nan backmost wherever it tin beryllium locked. She past locked nan shop and past she past fto america done nan backmost and now we are out."
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