Sydney, attack in a shopping centre: six dead, a newborn baby among the injured
The attacker, a 40-year-old known to the police, was killed: "It's not terrorism"Police and ambulances on site, on the left the attacker armed with a knife (X)
Shopping mall bombing in Sydney, Australia . A man armed with a knife killed six people . A witness quoted by the Sidney Herald reports seeing bodies on the ground covered in blood. There are also several injured.
There is also a nine-month-old baby among the many people stabbed inside the Westfield shopping center in Bondi Junction, which was full of people. Fortunately, as far as we know, he is not dead.
All the people present were evacuated. The leatherheads intervened on the spot.
«From the preliminary investigations it appears that this person acted alone. This is a 40-year-old man known to the police, it is not an episode of terrorism ", explained Deputy Commissioner Anthony Cooked at a press conference. “We know something about this person but we are waiting to confirm his identification.”
There would be no Italians involved: «We are following the situation in Australia through our embassy in Sydney and our Crisis Unit. There is no certain news but at the moment there are no Italians involved ", says Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani .
(Unioneonline/L)
