It was a chaotic scene inside Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction
shopping center where a mask stabbing happened just after 3:00
PM.
I was running but it's just,
it was insane. It was insanity.
I wasn't expecting it. Terrified shoppers describe the suspect as
he walked through the mall.
When we saw the guy come up the escalators,
green shirt I think shorts with the big black knife
in his hand and just really calmly he was just
walking like he was having an ice cream in the
park. Video captured the moments a man confronted the 40
year old attacker.
We saw all these people running towards us and then
we heard a shot.
That shot fired by a female police officer killed the
suspect.
As she continued to walk quickly behind him to catch
up with him,
he turned, faced her, raised a knife,
she discharged A firearm and that person is now deceased.
There were desperate efforts to save victims.
Among those killed, a mother whose nine month old baby
was injured,
baby in the stretcher going into the ambulance and now
I know it's a nine month old with a bandage
of the arm and in the belly and he was
like. Not awake As first responders secured the crime scene
and tended to victims,
police said they didn't believe it was a terror attack.
We know a little bit about this person,
but as I said, we're waiting to confirm his identification.
Australia's Prime Minister praised the heroics of everyday people who
were there.
And yet for these Australians,
their first instinct in the face of danger was to
help someone else.
That is what we hold onto tonight as Australians.
Almost all of the victims are women,
but it's unclear if that's why they were targeted.
A motive for the horrifying attack remains undetermined.
Catherine Urquhart, Global News Vancouver.