«Seems like these old indoctrinated cultures based around antiquated ideology is just not fit for the society we all strive for... It would make me jizz to see all these fool's taken out.. Let's have pity on them people!»
Just In: Five people have been killed in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping center in Sydney
Police were called to Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple people stabbed.
The suspect - who police said acted alone - was shot dead at the scene by a lone officer.
New South Wales Police's Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said said that the attacker raised his knife at her and “she discharged her firearm, and that person is now deceased.”
No information has been given as to his identity or a possible motive but Cooke said they were “not ruling anything out.”
After warning people to stay away from the area police say the incident is now over.
Eight patients, including one child, have been transported to hospitals across Sydney, NSW Ambulance service confirmed to CNN. They would not say if the injured people were men or women or what their current conditions were.
Videos shared on social media show shoppers running from multiple exits of the shopping center, while police helicopters can be heard overhead.
CNN's Australian affiliate, 9 News Sydney, spoke to an eyewitness who said people were running through the shopping center and falling over each other, describing the situation as “pandemonium.”
Channel 9 was told that people started running and shouting: “Do not go down, there has been a stabbing, there has been a stabbing.”
Two male eyewitnesses told 9 News they saw a baby and mother stabbed. “The baby got stabbed and the mum got stabbed.”
“We were holding the baby and trying to compress the baby. Same with the mother, trying to compress the blood from stopping.”
The news outlet also showed live video of people being put into ambulances and treated at the scene.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albenese said he had been briefed on the “devastating events” at Bondi Junction.
“Tragically, multiple casualties have been reported and the first thoughts of all Australians are with those affected and their loved ones,” he wrote on X.
Mass casualty events are rare in Australia. At least four people were killed and one injured in a mass shooting in Darwin, northern Australia in 2019.
April 1996 saw a mass shooting which became known as the Port Arthur massacre – the deadliest in Australia's modern history – when 35 people were killed in the tourist town in the state of Tasmania.
«Another unarmed population becomes part of the statistics. Who could have ever seen it coming?!»
«Lol. Mass stabbings must be a real slow process, i guess gun control works?»
«6 dead
1 9-month baby in surgery
8 others in surgery.
a cop shot killer 2 hits & dead. hand gun.
5 women 1 man dead .
killer was "known" as a bit of a loon but not out of the ordinary for a loon. he flipped the switch up grabbed a knife and went on this spree.
There are a few other videos showing different angles and the manic behaviour of the killer.
quite a few heroes -videoed- among the shoppers challenged the killer and changed his direction, stopped him going further forward clearly intent on killing more and
the everyday shoppers just went into auto response laid it out on the line - stopped a much bigger death injury toll.
cop just went in straight up shot him no ducks and no weaves just "I'm here to stop you" and she did!»