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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    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.