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.

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    59
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    that’s why militaries around the world have lately switched to knifes as primary service weapons and trained their soldiers like the ninjas of old

    fucking brain rot

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      51
      ·
      9 months ago

      Where did I say anything like that? I was pointing out that automatic weapons have shit accuracy. It’s not my fault you can’t understand that.