ABC TV in Australia reported that police evacuated shoppers at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction.

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach. They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

The man was shot dead by a police inspector after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

  • Ixoid@lemm.eeEnglish
    726·
    8 months ago

    Brainworms. Fuck your freedum bullshit, we don’t want or need your sick gun culture in Australia.

    • sandmanEnglish
      241·
      8 months ago

      Better to have knife culture :P

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          338·
          8 months ago

          Cool the UK said the same thing, and now they have bans on knives in public. Just as Australia has bans on paintball guns and airsoft. The Overton window keeps getting pushed to one extreme or the other.

          • Ixoid@lemm.eeEnglish
            22·
            8 months ago

            Like flies on shit, you cunts turn up after every tragedy around the world, trying to convince us to have MORE death in society. You sicken me.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
              130·
              8 months ago

              You do know more guns are in civilian hands in Australia now than before the 96 forced confiscation.

              • Ixoid@lemm.eeEnglish
                11·
                8 months ago

                Bullshit that you keep repeating doesn’t make it true. The legislation our govt passed in the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy makes our country a safer place for everyone.

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            The UK has a violence problem - but that problem would be so much fucking worse if there were guns involved.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      246·
      8 months ago

      You already have it. You now have more firearms in civilian hands than before the 1996 ban.