Multiple police cars and ambulances are attending the scene.
Five people have been killed and several are in a critical condition, including a baby, after stabbings at a shopping centre near Bondi Beach in Sydney. Police said the attacker who acted alone has been shot dead by an officer who confronted him on her own. Authorities said they don't know who the suspect is, nor the motive of the attack, but confirmed there is no longer a threat.
Every moment was playing through my head, I was so scared.' Waverley Council said on X: 'A critical incident has commenced following the shooting of a male at Bondi Junction. Just before 4pm today, emergency services were called to Westfield Bondi Junction following reports of multiple people stabbed. People are urged to avoid the area.' Witness Roi Huberman, an ABC sound engineer, told the network that he sheltered in a store during the incident.
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