Several people were stabbed, among whom there were "some deaths", up to six according to some sources. Police shot and killed a man and are looking for a possible second attacker.
The shopping center was placed under lockdown during the attack as panic spread. The police managed to evacuate many people while the attack was underway. It has not yet been declared whether it was terrorism. The attack took place in a shopping center in the Australian city of Sydney, according to local police and witnesses cited by the press. A man in a T-shirt and shorts was seen wandering around the corridors with a knife in his hand, security cameras at the Westfield shopping center, outside Sydney, show. He is believed to have been armed with a large knife. The incident is being investigated by the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Bureau of Investigation (AFP) The attack is being treated as terrorism by local police. The man in the T- shirt and shorts is believed be from Sydney. The shooting took place at a Westfield Shopping Center in Bondi Junction, near Sydney.