An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene.
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"This was a horrific act of violence, indiscriminately targeting innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday doing their shopping," he told a press conference.Australia, a country of about 26 million people, has some of the world's toughest gun and knife laws, andEmergency services were called to the mall, about three kilometres from Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach and popular with children and families, just before 4 p.m. after the stabbing reports, police said.
"People around me were terrified. There were some old ladies I helped to get them inside a safe place inside the cafe." "If she did not shoot him, he would have kept going, he was on the rampage," said the man, who did not give his name. "She went over and was giving him CPR. He had a nice big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree."
One video show a man confronting the attacker with a bollard from the top of an escalator. Others showed people trying to move the injured to safety and help others hide in shops.
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