2nd stabbing attack in three days in Sydney, Australia
2nd stabbing attack in three days in Sydney, Australia
A person who stabbeda bishop and people in a church in Sydney, Australia, was arrested.
Today’s attack was the second stabbing after Saturday’s attack at a shopping mall in Sydney’s Bondi area that left six people dead.
It is not known whether the stabbing attacks, which took place three days apart in the same city, are related to each other.
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Security forces reported that there were no serious injuries in today’s attack.
Police officials stated that many people were injured in the attack at a church in Walkley, 30 km west of Sydney city centre, but did not give a figure.
The statement stated that officers arrested a male individual and that this individual assisted police in the investigation.
Local media also reported that the church administrator and several worshipers were stabbed during a service.
In the videos shared on the internet and claimed to be from the moment of the incident, a person with a knife is seen attacking and stabbing the speaker.
The police statement continued, stating that the injured people’s condition was not life-threatening and they were treated by paramedics.
Source: Euronews
Police say knife attacker in Sydney targeted women
The father of the attacker who killed 6 people in Australia described his son as “someone who has had problematic relationships with women and has no social skills, although he wants a relationship”
It turned out that the person who stabbed six people to death in a shopping mall in Bondi, the seaside town of Sydney, Australia, targeted only women.
While the investigation opened after the incident continued, it was learned that the attacker had a history of mental illness and problems in his relationships with women.
The 40-year-old suspect, Joel Cauchi, killed six people and injured 12 people with a large knife on Saturday. It was seen that most of the injured people were women.
“He wanted to have a girlfriend and he had no social skills,” the father of the attacker who was shot by the police told a newspaper. he said.
The only man killed
The only man killed during the attack was 30-year-old security guard Faraz Tahir.
Tahir came to Australia as a refugee from Pakistan last year, according to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia, to which he is a member.
Authorities also identified the sixth victim as Yixuan Cheng, a Chinese citizen studying in the country.
Birthday
Hundreds of people from across the city left flowers and wreaths outside the mall on Monday to remember those who lost their lives.
A person named Wren Wyatt, who was there during the attack, was among those who left flowers.
“I’m still trying to get back to my daily life. I took today off to try to clear my head.” Wyatt said that while he was walking in front of the shopping center on Saturday, a crowd passed by screaming and security told him to run away.
Mass murders are rare in the country of 27 million people, which has the world’s toughest gun and knife carrying laws.
Meanwhile, the Australian national flag was flown at half-staff across the country in honor of the victims, including at Parliament House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
The sails of the Sydney Opera House will also be illuminated with a black ribbon on Monday evening. euronews
