A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach. They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

The man was shot dead by a police inspector after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

    • @jordanlundM
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      148 months ago

      From the 32nd floor of a hotel.

      • @SupraMario
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        -318 months ago

        Yes bullets don’t stop after 20 feet… what’s your point? The spray into a crowd that size and that packed together, it’s surprising more weren’t killed.

        • @jordanlundM
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          218 months ago

          The point is, when your target is a crowd of people, automatic fire is not as ineffective as you make it out to be.

          Like at a music festival… or in a mall.

          • @SupraMario
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            -268 months ago

            It’s ineffective at killing people, literally the numbers prove this.

            • @jordanlundM
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              128 months ago

              Except when used in the largest mass killing im US history.

              • @SupraMario
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                -58 months ago

                Again, the ratio of injuries vs deaths is way higher than when someone with a semi automatic has walked around and shot people. I don’t understand why that’s hard to understand.

                Hell look at this gang shooting that just happened

                https://lemmy.world/post/14304481

                1 dead 8 injured in a drive-by. %100 a Glock with a giggle switch used.

            • @[email protected]
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              118 months ago

              “it killed 60 people, it’s ineffective at killing”

              are you even listening to yourself?

              • @nyctre
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                88 months ago

                C’mon, it’s obviously a troll. Nobody’s this brain dead.