Six lifeless, together with attacker
The police assistant commissioner, Anthony Cooke, is offering an replace at a press convention.
Cooke confirms the attacker was shot lifeless by a close-by police officer who was on her personal.
“She confronted the offender who had moved by this stage to stage 5 [of the mall] as she continued to stroll rapidly behind him to meet up with him. He turned, confronted her, raised a knife. She discharged a firearm and that particular person is now deceased.”
He added:
“I’m suggested that there are 5 victims who are actually deceased on account of the actions of this offender.”
Key occasions
Tamsin Rose
Mark Speakman, the New South Wales opposition chief, has launched the next assertion:
Tonight we’re shocked and saddened by at present’s tragedy at Bondi Junction. The NSW Police have suggested that the state of affairs is now beneath management.
Our hearts exit to the victims, their households and family members.
The NSW Opposition expresses our gratitude to our police, well being staff, different first responders and members of the general public, and significantly to those that displayed extraordinary bravery within the face of tragedy.
We pray for the speedy restoration of these in hospital tonight.
Now, and within the coming days and weeks, it’s necessary that these affected by this tragedy obtain the care and assist they want.
As a group we’ll want to come back collectively to assist those that have suffered harm, loss and trauma at present.
The place is Bondi Junction? Context for non-Sydneysiders
For these readers outdoors of Sydney, this assault has occurred at a big, six-level Westfield buying centre in Bondi Junction within the metropolis’s japanese suburbs.
Whereas the japanese suburbs are historically dwelling to the among the metropolis’s extra prosperous residents, Bondi Junction serves as a key buying and transport hub for the broader space.
It’s not removed from Bondi’s iconic seashore, and is roughly 5km from Sydney’s major central enterprise district.
‘We had been informed to maintain our telephones on silent and keep quiet’
We’re nonetheless listening to extra tales from customers who had been contained in the Westfield buying centre in Bondi Junction on the time of the stabbing assault.
One native girl, from the close by suburb of Clovelly who requested to not be named, informed Guardian Australia she was contained in the Myer division retailer on stage 2:
“I heard a scream someplace outdoors. Then a voiceover all through Myer mentioned ‘Code Brown.’
She mentioned “we had been then informed by employees that one thing very critical had occurred within the centre”.
We needed to run and conceal in a location on the ground which turned out to be a storeroom. There would have been about 70 or 80 of us in there. We had been informed to maintain our telephones on silent and keep quiet. It was very popular in there.
She mentioned “there was fairly a little bit of confusion all through the hour that we had been in there with some orders being to evacuate and different orders to remain put”.
At one stage we had been evacuated after which informed to run again inside. Workers did their finest they may within the circumstances. Then we had been informed to evacuate and ran out of the centre.
Motive unclear, police not ruling out terrorism
Police say no clear motive has emerged in relation to the attacker who has killed 5 individuals and injured a number of others, together with a child.
The assistant commissioner, Anthony Cooke, mentioned the person had been within the centre, left the buying centre, then returned, at which level he started stabbing individuals within the centre.
No ideology or motive is evident.
There’s nothing that we’re conscious of on the scene that will point out any motive or any ideology.
Requested by a reporter if police had been ruling out terrorism, Cooke mentioned:
We’re not ruling something out.
A number of injured taken to hospital, demise toll prone to enhance
Tamsin Rose
The assistant commissioner, Anthony Cooke, has mentioned “there are greater than a number of different individuals who have been conveyed to hospital”.
Guardian Australia understands the demise toll is prone to enhance.
Attacker ‘acted alone’, ‘no persevering with risk’
Anthony Cooke has mentioned:
“From preliminary inquiries, it might seem that this particular person has acted alone. I’m content material that there is no such thing as a persevering with risk.”
Six lifeless, together with attacker
The police assistant commissioner, Anthony Cooke, is offering an replace at a press convention.
Cooke confirms the attacker was shot lifeless by a close-by police officer who was on her personal.
“She confronted the offender who had moved by this stage to stage 5 [of the mall] as she continued to stroll rapidly behind him to meet up with him. He turned, confronted her, raised a knife. She discharged a firearm and that particular person is now deceased.”
He added:
“I’m suggested that there are 5 victims who are actually deceased on account of the actions of this offender.”
NSW premier to return to Sydney instantly
Tamsin Rose
Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, will return to Sydney instantly following the Bondi Junction incident. Minns had been out of Sydney on Saturday and had an appearing premier masking for him.
He simply launched this assertion:
I’m horrified to listen to in regards to the occasions at Bondi Junction this afternoon. I’m making instant preparations to return to Sydney.
I wish to thank NSW police, emergency companies and first responders and the group for his or her bravery within the face of this surprising incident.
Anthony Albanese responds to assault and confirms a number of casualties
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has prolonged his sympathies to the victims. He wrote on Twitter/X:
I’ve been briefed by the AFP on the devastating occasions at Bondi Junction.
Tragically, a number of casualties have been reported and the primary ideas of all Australians are with these affected and their family members.
Our hearts exit to these injured and we provide our due to these caring for them in addition to our courageous police and first responders.”
Studies of potential second attacker possible incorrect
It seems that stories of a possible second attacker are incorrect.
Police had been sweeping the buying centre conducting searches, however now consider there was only one attacker.
The state of affairs is known to now be beneath management.
A consumer who had been at a health club contained in the Westfield buying centre at Bondi Junction informed the ABC from the road outdoors:
I noticed a lady mendacity on the ground in [the shop] Chanel.
It was madness, I wasn’t anticipating it. I believed I used to be going to die.