A man stabbed five people to death and injured several others at a busy shopping center in Sydney before being shot by police. The motive behind the attack is still unknown.
SYDNEY — A man stabbed five people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Multiple people, including a small child, were also injured in the attack.The suspect stabbed nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city's eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot him after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.
He said there was 'nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.' When asked whether officials were ruling out terrorism, he said: 'We're not ruling anything out.'Cooke said the police inspector, a senior officer, was alone when she confronted the suspect and engaged him soon after her arrival on the scene, 'saving a range of people's lives.
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