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Australian police responded to a shopping center in Sydney on Saturday after reports of a knife attack. Emergency services evacuated hundreds of people. He informed about it server News.com.au that a man armed with a knife ran around a busy department store near Bondi Beach and stabbed several people before being shot dead by police. According to Australian media, at least six people were killed in the attack.
One evacuee from the Westfield Bondi Junction department store told 9 News he saw the alleged attacker with a “pretty big blade”. “Everyone started running towards the end of the building,” said the man who identified himself as Jason. He claimed that he later witnessed the police shooting the alleged assailant. “She shot him,” he said. Images of the alleged assailant after his death were also circulated on the X social network.
People walking in the streets near the mall said that a mother with a small child was among those stabbed. One of the men interviewed by 9 News claimed that other shoppers tried to help the stabbed mother and her baby. The man said he was holding the infant and they, along with other people, tried to compress his wounds. According to him, the others tried to treat the mother, who was bleeding more heavily. According to Channel 9, the roughly nine-month-old baby was taken to the hospital for treatment.
NSW Ambulance Service confirmed seven people, including a child, had been taken to city hospitals.
New South Wales State Police confirmed they had launched an operation following reports of a knife attack and said one man had been shot at the scene. However, she did not release any further details.
