A police officer, considered a hero, shot the perpetrator and possibly prevented more deaths, authorities reported. The motives for the attack are not clear.
A nine-month-old baby was “transported to Sydney Children's Hospital with a pediatric stab wound,” an ambulance service spokesperson said. The attacker entered the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center around 3:20 p.m. local time (1:20 a.M. ET) where he “caused damage” about nine people “stabbing them with a weapon he was carrying” The weapon “was probably a knife,’ police commissioner said, adding that the offender’s motives were unclear but he acted alone and there was no ongoing threat.. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the attack “a horrific act of violence directed indiscriminately at innocent people.” “All of a sudden we heard a gunshot or maybe two gunshots and we didn’t know what to do,�” a man outside the shopping center said.