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A Perth teenager shot dead by police after he stabbed a stranger had converted to Islam in Year 7 and was enrolled in a radicalisation program from the age of fourteen. An officer fatally shot the 16-year-old about 10pm on Saturday after he rushed at police with a large kitchen knife in a Bunning’s carpark in the southern suburb of Willetton.
Concerns grow as terror acts rise among teens. In his final message to friends, the boy said he was going on a “path to jihad” and asked for forgiveness. “We were obviously well aware of the thoughts that he was harbouring, and he was an active participant in that program since he was 14,” WA Premier Roger Cook said. Cook said the stabbing had all the “hallmarks of a terrorist incident”.
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