A man stabbed five people to death in Sydney shopping center before fatally shot by police: “It’s raw” and “untilated”, said Cooke
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. Five of the victims and the suspect died, he said. He didn’t give any information on the condition of the injured.
He thought the suspect was alone, and that there was 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.” He said officials are not ruling anything out.
Source: Man stabs 5 people to death in Sydney shopping center before fatally shot by police
The Sydney Mall Stabbing Describe Harrowing Scenes: A witness tells ABC of a terrifying attack on a young man at the mall
We didn’t know what to do when we heard a shot or two shots. “Then the very capable person in the store took us to the back where it can be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”
Shoppers were told to leave Myer when Andrew had been there, he told Sky News Australia. Many stores were in a state of “lockdown”, but Mr. Reid was the one who administered first aid after he saw people lying on the floor.
Video taken inside the mall showed a man in dark shorts and a dark shirt running at people with a knife. The adults holding the young children seemed to be fleeing from him. A man tried to stop the attacker on an escalator.
The scene of the attack at the mall was terrifying, with shoppers fleeing from the man with the knife or in stores as panic spread through the shopping center.
“There was so much blood,” he said, adding that he had treated one woman who was wounded in her back, and that others trying to help had used cotton T-shirts and other pieces of clothing to stem the bleeding. A woman he treated was stabbed in the chest. She was in a bad way.
A senior police officer who had been nearby confronted the attacker, and she then fatally shot him, according the police. A witness told ABC that he heard screaming and then saw the police officer shoot the man.
One woman who had been at the shopping center complex on Saturday told the national broadcaster that she had been at the gym and then hid in a store after hearing gunshots.
Source: Witnesses to Sydney Mall Stabbing Describe Harrowing Scenes
On the shock of the emergency workers treating a baby with stab wounds in a mall – an eyewitness recalls Brendan Blomeley
Other witnesses described seeing emergency workers treating a baby with stab wounds. A lot of people said that they felt disbelief at the sudden attack on their lives.
“It was harrowing,” Brendan Blomeley, who was in the mall with his 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, told the national broadcaster. The police response to the attack was praised by him.