UPDATE: The main carnival at Sydney's Royal Easter Show will reopen tomorrow, with additional safety and security measures to be implemented. 9News
Last night a 17-year-old working at the show was stabbed to death near the adult carnival rides about 8pm.
"We believe there is someone we still need to identify who is responsible for the stabbing," Superintendent Danielle Emerton said earlier today.She called for people who had been at the show last night who may have footage of the incident to come forward to police.
"I, and my CEO, made our way directly to that area. Police and ambulance had already arrived, they got to the scene probably within about two minutes," he told 2GB's Jim Wilson.Mr Wilton was asked how someone would be able to bring a knife, which appears to be quite large based on videos shared online, into the showgrounds.
Mr Wilton also said organisers are "tired" of young people - not children but teenagers - using the show to sort out their personal differences.'Confronting' attack not thought to be random "Paramedics performed CPR and a number of other critical interventions at the scene before loading the patient for transport to Westmead Hospital, unfortunately despite best efforts he couldn't be resuscitated," he said, in a statement.
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