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.

  • papertowels@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    There’s a nuanced difference between odds of being someone being killed by x versus y, and the number of deaths resulting from x vs y.

    My hunch is that spraying into a crowd with an automatic results in more deaths at a faster rate than someone actively aiming, but quite frankly my personal belief is that having a knife severely limited the number of deaths when compared to any firearm.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      https://lemmy.world/post/14304481

      Last night, gang hit, 1 dead 8 injured, drive by. Glock with giggle switch %100 was used. I’m not saying automatics aren’t deadly, I’m saying most cannot properly use them to the point of making them deadly.