A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach. They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

The man was shot dead by a police inspector after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

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    3 months ago

    Why? Less people would have probably died. Automatics are stupid hard to shoot accurately. The military uses them for suppression even. They’re not designed to be accurate just to keep the enemy down.

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      3 months ago

      Brainworms. Fuck your freedum bullshit, we don’t want or need your sick gun culture in Australia.

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        3 months ago

        Go for it, you do know what NCD is right? Most people there are progun… it’s literally pro-military.

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          3 months ago

          The fact that people like you are allowed to own automatic guns is the best argument against that being allowed.

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            3 months ago

            The ncd on Lemmy is hilarious, it’s filled with a bunch of eurocucks who whine about firearms ownership.

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              Go for it, you do know what NCD is right? Most people there are progun… it’s literally pro-military.