A man stabs 5 people to death in a shopping center before he is shot by police

Stabbings in a Mall: Australia’s First Aid Workers and Lifeguards Aided in the Search for Terrorism

A man stabbed five people to death at a shopping center before he was shot by police. A child and several other people were wounded in the attack.

The police inspector was alone and engaged the suspect soon after arriving on the scene, saving a range of people’s lives.

He said there was “nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.” When asked whether officials were ruling out terrorism, he said: “We’re not ruling anything out.”

He said they heard a shot or two shots and didn’t know what to do. The person in the store was very capable and put us in the back room where it could be locked. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.”

Andrew Reid, a lifeguard, told Sky News Australia that he had been on an errand at Myer, a retailer, when shoppers were told to evacuate. Many of the stores were in lockdown, Mr. Reid said, but after seeing people lying bleeding on the floor, he went to administer first aid.

Video taken inside the mall showed a man in dark shorts and a dark shirt running at people with a knife. Some people were holding young children while fleeing from him. One man confronted the attacker on an escalator to try to stop him.

Witnesses to the stabbings in a Sydney, Australia, mall on Saturday described a scene of terror as shoppers fled from the knife-wielding man or huddled in stores as panic spread through the shopping center.

He said that he had treated a wounded woman in his care and that people had used cotton T-shirts and other pieces of clothing to stem the bleeding. Another woman he treated had been stabbed in the chest, he said. “She was in a pretty bad way.”

A senior police officer who was nearby confronted the attacker and shot and killed him. One witness told the Australian national broadcaster, ABC, that he had heard screaming and followed the police officer who was chasing after the man, and then saw her shoot him.

One woman who had been at the shopping center complex on Saturday told the national broadcaster that she had been at the gym and then hid in a store after hearing gunshots.

Brendan and the halo of an armed robber’s friend: he said he was devastated by the incident and thanked the police

Emergency workers were treating a baby with stab wounds. Many said they felt disbelief at the sudden attack on people simply going about their lives on a weekend afternoon.

Brendan was in a mall with his children and he told the national broadcaster that it was harrowing. But he praised the police for their response to the attack.