A crowd gathers outdoors Westfield Shopping Centre in Sydney on Saturday, April 13, 2024.

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A crowd gathers outdoors Westfield Shopping Centre in Sydney on Saturday, April 13, 2024.

Rick Rycroft/AP

SYDNEY — A person stabbed six folks to dying at a busy Sydney procuring middle Saturday earlier than he was fatally shot, police mentioned. Multiple folks, together with a small baby, had been additionally injured within the assault.

The suspect stabbed 9 folks on the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is within the metropolis’s jap suburbs, earlier than a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke advised reporters. Six of the victims and the suspect died. Police had no particular particulars on the situation of the injured.

Cooke mentioned he believed that the suspect acted alone, and he was “content that there is no continuing threat.” He mentioned officers did not know who the offender was. “This is quite raw,” he mentioned, and a “lengthy and precise” investigation was simply starting.

He mentioned there was “nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.” When requested whether or not officers had been ruling out terrorism, he mentioned: “We’re not ruling anything out.”

Cooke mentioned the police inspector, a senior officer, was alone when she confronted the suspect and engaged him quickly after her arrival on the scene, “saving a range of people’s lives.”

Video confirmed many ambulances and police vehicles across the procuring middle, and folks streaming out.

Paramedics had been treating sufferers on the scene.

Witness Roi Huberman, a sound engineer at ABC TV in Australia, advised the community that he sheltered in a retailer throughout the incident.

“And suddenly we heard a shot or maybe two shots and we didn’t know what to do,” he mentioned. “Then the very capable person in the store took us to the back where it can be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”