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Sydney, Australia - Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack leaves seven dead, inc attacker shot by police (number of injured as of now unknown)

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Guardian Australia Article, Live Updates
*13 was a typo I forgot to delete, not sure of total account, all speculative.

In a statement, police have confirmed more information about what happened to end the attack. Here is their account of the incident:

About 3.30pm… emergency services were called to Westfield in Bondi Junction, following reports multiple people had been stabbed.

An officer attached to Eastern Suburbs police area command attended and was allegedly confronted by a man with a knife. The man allegedly lunged at the officer, before he was fatally shot.

The officer conducted CPR until the arrival of NSW ambulance paramedics, who worked on the man; however, he could not be revived.

It has been confirmed the man fatally stabbed six people in the centre before he was shot.
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www.abc.net.au

Live: Six killed in mass stabbing at Sydney's Bondi Junction, lone police officer shoots attacker

Seven people have died and several people have been taken to hospital after a stabbing at a shopping centre in Bondi Junction.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au




View: https://x.com/guardianaus/status/1779077720342945998?s=61&t=1A5hx5OVxeMImFOYS1PcVg
 
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Kyuuji

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Horrific. Legitimately a fear of mine. I hope those in care pull through and the death toll doesn't rise.
 
Azem

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Since it's in the tweets, it's worth stating that it's not known to be terrorism at this point in time. It's speculation by random people on the internet.
 
Kapryov

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whoa wtf, that was a mall I used to visit regularly

I don't even know how to process this
those poor people, my thoughts are with their loved ones
 
Gangster Gastino

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This is so awful. What an utter tragedy. Used to go to the Westfield at the junction all the time. Such an incredibly rare thing to happen in Sydney.
 
danm999

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Pretty crazy I was there last night, some of the footage…

That guy with the bollard fighting the guy off is a hero
 
Nateo

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The guy stabbed a baby. Solo Cop took him out would have rather see him rot but he already had killed multiple people.
 
Jintor

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ive been back end of the guardian liveblog all day. fucking crazy saturday

peace to all the victims

bondi is so central. if you've ever been to bondi beach you passed by the junction, almost certainly. everybody in this city probably knows it at least a bit. this is insane
 
dejay

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Fuck me, I haven't watched/listened to the news all day. First I heard about it was this thread. This stuff always comes as a shock in your own backyard.
 

Rocket Schnauzer

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Use AU news sources for info. X has people referring to the perpetrator as "Islamic terrorist". Terrible tragedy. Thank god we don't have access to guns here.
 
GMM

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In developing situation like these we shouldn't speculate and share unverifiable information, so let's just stick to what we know.

An unbearable tragedy has occurred and some families are going through a nightmare right now, let's learn from it and figure out how we can avoid history from repeating itself.
 
mentok15

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Saw this on the news earlier, this is terrible. RIP to the victims, and I can't fathom what their families are going through.
 
SABO.

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Crazy incident. Really unfortunate for us in Sydney where this type of thing, random attacks targeted at the public, just doesn't really happen... especially not in Bondi.

I feel terrible for those involved. I've read some of the descriptions of the scenes and its horrific.

I'm a bit curious to understand how we react to this.
 
Melody Shreds

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That's awful, this kind of thing is extremely rare in Australia right? While we get active shooters in the US what feels like every other week I haven't heard about any kind of major attacks in Australia in years.
 

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Melody Shreds said:
That's awful, this kind of thing is extremely rare in Australia right? While we get active shooters in the US what feels like every other week I haven't heard about any kind of major attacks in Australia in years.
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The last major attack was Port Arthur in the 90s I think, John Howard, a conservative PM more or less banned guns outside certain narrow circumstances. Never been a mass shooting since. The shooting in NZ a few years ago was done by an Australian who I suspect couldn't do it in Australia because the guns weren't available here.
 
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JasonV said:
The last major attack was Port Arthur in the 90s I think, John Howard, a conservative PM more or less banned guns outside certain narrow circumstances. Never been a mass shooting since. The shooting in NZ a few years ago was done by an Australian who I suspect couldn't do it in Australia because the guns weren't available here.
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I had that incident in the back in my mind when I wrote that post but it was the most recent attack of its kind until now? Wow that gun ban put in some work.
 
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Melody Shreds said:
I had that incident in the back in my mind when I wrote that post but it was the most recent attack of its kind until now? Wow that gun ban put in some work.
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I think there might have been other mass casualty events but they might have involved cars? Certainly the last one I remember covering wasn't Australian at all but was actually Christchurch.
 
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    Mental Illness... unsurprising considering how much this country does not give a flying fuck about it.
     
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    Nateo said:
    Mental Illness... unsurprising considering how much this country does not give a flying fuck about it.
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    How many countries actually care about mental illness?
    I can name a few off the top of my head and most of them are part of the EU.

    Edit: I am meaning I wish more would take it seriously. Have family in Oz and one who works with CYPS, their work stories are akin to horror stories when it comes to the government handling of such issues.
     
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