NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said five people have been killed.
Six people have been killed in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping center in Sydney, Australian police said, CNN reports.
NSW police says the incident happened at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney's east on Saturday afternoon.
Police were called to the scene on Saturday afternoon local time following reports of multiple people stabbed.
The suspect - who police said acted alone - was shot dead at the scene by a lone officer.
New South Wales Police’s Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said said that the attacker raised his knife at her and “she discharged her firearm, and that person is now deceased.”
No information has been given as to his identity or a possible motive but Cooke said they were “not ruling anything out.”
After warning people to stay away from the area police say the incident is now over.
Eight patients, including one child, have been transported to hospitals across Sydney, NSW Ambulance service confirmed to CNN. They would not say if the injured people were men or women or what their current conditions were.
Videos shared on social media show shoppers running from multiple exits of the shopping center, while police helicopters can be heard overhead.
CNN’s Australian affiliate, 9 News Sydney, spoke to an eyewitness who said people were running through the shopping center and falling over each other, describing the situation as “pandemonium.”
Channel 9 was told that people started running and shouting: “Do not go down, there has been a stabbing, there has been a stabbing.”
Two male eyewitnesses told 9 News they saw a baby and mother stabbed. “The baby got stabbed and the mum got stabbed.”
“We were holding the baby and trying to compress the baby. Same with the mother, trying to compress the blood from stopping.”
The news outlet also showed live video of people being put into ambulances and treated at the scene.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albenese said he had been briefed on the “devastating events” at Bondi Junction.
“Tragically, multiple casualties have been reported and the first thoughts of all Australians are with those affected and their loved ones,” he wrote on X.
Mass casualty events are rare in Australia. At least four people were killed and one injured in a mass shooting in Darwin, northern Australia in 2019.
April 1996 saw a mass shooting which became known as the Port Arthur massacre – the deadliest in Australia’s modern history – when 35 people were killed in the tourist town in the state of Tasmania.
This is a developing story.
雪梨購物中心發生大規模刺傷事件，造成五人死亡，攻擊者遭槍殺
根據美國有線電視新聞網 (CNN) 報道，澳洲警方稱，雪梨一繁忙購物中心發生大規模持刀傷人事件，造成 5 人死亡。
當地時間週六下午，接獲多人被刺傷的報告後，警方接獲報案前往 Westfield Bondi Junction。
警方稱嫌犯是單獨行動，被一名單身警官當場擊斃。
新南威爾斯警察局助理局長安東尼庫克表示，攻擊者向她舉起刀，「她開槍了，那人現已死亡」。
目前還沒有透露他的身份或可能的動機，但庫克表示，他們「不排除任何可能性」。
警方警告人們遠離該地區後表示，事件現已結束。
新南威爾斯救護車服務部門向 CNN 證實，包括一名兒童在內的 8 名患者已被送往雪梨各地的醫院。 他們不願透露受傷者是男性還是女性，也沒有透露他們目前的情況如何。
社群媒體上分享的影片顯示，購物者從購物中心的多個出口逃跑，頭頂上可以聽到警用直升機的聲音。
CNN(CNN) 的澳洲附屬機構雪梨九號台(9 News Sydney) 採訪了一名目擊者，目擊者稱，人們在購物中心裡奔跑，互相摔倒，稱當時的情況為「混亂」。
第九頻道獲悉，人們開始奔跑並大喊：“不要下去，有人被刺傷，有人被刺傷。”
兩名男性目擊者告訴九號台新聞，他們看到一名嬰兒和一名母親被刺傷。 “嬰兒被刺傷，媽媽也被刺傷。”
「我們抱著嬰兒並試圖按壓嬰兒。 和母親一樣，試圖阻止血液停止。
該新聞媒體還播放了人們被送上救護車並在現場接受治療的現場影片。
澳洲總理安東尼·阿爾本內斯表示，他已獲悉邦迪樞紐發生的「毀滅性事件」。
他在 X 上寫道：“可悲的是，據報道有多人傷亡，所有澳大利亞人首先想到的是那些受影響的人和他們的親人。”
大規模傷亡事件在澳洲很少見。 2019 年澳洲北部達爾文發生大規模槍擊事件，造成至少 4 人死亡、1 人受傷。
1996 年 4 月，塔斯馬尼亞州的旅遊小鎮發生了一場大規模槍擊事件，被稱為亞瑟港大屠殺，這是澳洲現代史上最致命的槍擊事件，造成 35 人死亡。
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