Suspect, 40, among seven killed in Sydney Westfield Shopping Centre stabbing attack

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A single unit officer, inspector of police, was nearby, attended, went into the centre directed by a range of people.” “She confronted the offender who had moved, by this stage, to level five.” “As she continued to walk quickly behind to catch up with him he turned to face her, raised a knife, she discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased.” open image in gallery A woman cries as she comes out of the Westfield mall after the stabbing attack The attack is not thought to be an act of terrorism, New South Wales Police commissioner Karen Webb said. “That included a total of four medical teams.” “New South Wales Ambulance assessed and transported eight patients to various hospital facilities across Sydney and assessed a total of six patients who have been deemed deceased on scene.” open image in gallery Ambulances make their way outside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on 13 April 2024 An eyewitness described the police officer shooting the attacker to state broadcaster ABC. She then locked the store and then she then let us through the back and now we are out.” open image in gallery Families walk out of the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on 13 April 2024 Another witness said he was in a cafe with his two small children when he saw a man “stabbing people indiscriminately”. ABC News Australia spoke to the witness, who did not want to be identified, and reported: “He saw a bloke in a green shirt start stabbing people indiscriminately, he handed off his kids to his wife who escaped before he started trying to help a woman who had been stabbed outside.” “He said he saw screaming, screaming and it didn’t seem that long before we heard the boom, boom, boom of the gunshot and we thought and hoped that it was the police.