An attacker has killed five people at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney's east, while several others are in a critical condition.

The condition of the victims hasn’t been released yet. 7 people have been stabbed. The psycho who stabbed them has been shot and killed by police

Update: 5 people were killed

  • BakuOPEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I watched the press release the ABC posted, and the police said that 5 were dead “as a result of his actions”, so I’d take that to mean their tally excluded him

    • maniacalmanicmaniaEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Yes I should have said ‘Five killed by the attacker’. I was watching the police presser when you posted this which is where I got the figure from.

      • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
        3·
        2 months ago

        @maniacalmanicmania @Baku “As a result of his actions” is worded in a deliberately vague way. It could mean one of two things.

        Either they’re saying all five people (including the attacker, who was shot by a police officer) are dead because of the attacker’s actions.

        Or they’re saying he stabbed five people.

        • sqgl@beehaw.org
          3·
          2 months ago

          But ambulance said 6. So it must be 5 victims plus the perpetrator.

          • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
            3·
            2 months ago

            @sqgl There’s a reason why they’re being deliberately vague at this stage.

            In a similar situation in 2016, one man (the attacker) was killed and four people were injured, after an attacker carried a knife around Westfield Hornsby: https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/police-shoot-and-kill-knifeman-at-westfield-hornsby/news-story/09e98074a9f0534020686a76ebee783c

            After the official investigation, it turned out the four bystanders who were injured were accidentally struck by police bullets that ricocheted, rather than the attacker himself.

            I’m definitely not saying that’s the case this time, but they’re likely to be vague until they can rule something like that out.

            • sqgl@beehaw.org
              2·
              2 months ago

              The knife man survived in that article. A good outcome overall perhaps however I don’t understand why cops didn’t have their tasers drawn. Are they only for 95 year old women on walking frames in nursing homes?