6 killed in Sydney shopping centre stabbing attack, suspect shot dead by police

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Emergency service workers work near Bondi Junction after multiple people were stabbed inside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, on April 13, 2024..

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping centre 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..

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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