Baby injured in Sydney mall stabbing out of ICU as police detain teen in church ‘terrorist’ attack
Members of the public clashed with police after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed during a service at Christ the Good Shepherd Church
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A baby girl injured in a stabbing attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre has been moved out of the intensive care.
The nine-month-old child was in a serious but stable condition, a health official said. Her mother, Ashlee Good, was among the six people killed in the carnage on Saturday.
Meanwhile, police in Sydney declared the attack on a bishop at a church as an act of terrorism, as authorities call for calm in the wake of disturbance following the incident.
At least four people were injured in the attack, including Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, during a service at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the suburb of Wakeley in the west of the city.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested during the event, which triggered a riot outside the church. Two officers were injured with one suffering a broken jaw after he was hit with a brick and fence palings. Ten police cars were destroyed.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese urged the public not to take the law into their own hands. “It is not acceptable to impede police and injure police doing their duty or to damage police vehicles in a way that we saw last night,” he added.
Parents of ‘monster’ Sydney knife attacker say son was angry he ‘couldn’t get a girlfriend’
Parents of Sydney knife attacker ‘extremely sorry’ after son kills six
Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 12 others, including a nine-month old baby
‘Bollard man’: Frenchman who took on Sydney mall attacker offered permanent Australian residency
Frenchman who took on Sydney mall attacker offered permanent Australian residency
Damien Guerot engaged Cauchi on escalator, forcing him to flee
What’s really to blame for the Sydney stabbings
What’s really to blame for the Sydney stabbings
I’m a psychologist, writes Dr Jessica Taylor – and I can tell you that attacks like these are rarely ‘random’, ‘unpredictable’, ‘unrelated’ and ‘unpreventable’. The real ‘monster’ here is misogyny
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Man who filmed attacker speaks of ‘disbelief’
Man who filmed Sydney knifeman lunging at mall shoppers speaks of ‘disbelief’
A shopper who filmed Sydney shopping centre attacker Joel Cauchi walking through Westfield armed with a knife has spoken of his disbelief at what happened. Cauchi, 40, stabbed six people to death at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction on Saturday (13 April), before he was fatally shot by a police officer. Video footage shared online appears to show many people fleeing as a knife-wielding Cauchi walked through the shopping centre and lunged at people. Rohan Anderson, who filmed some of the footage, said: “When I took my footage it was about 15 seconds maybe before he was shot by the police officer and he'd already killed a number of people at that point.”
What we know about the six victims of the mall attack
Sydney stabbings: What we know about the six victims of the mall attack
Five women and one man were killed by knife attacker Joel Cauchi at Bondi Junction on Saturday
The Sydney attacker’s secret life as a male escort as police probe if he targeted women
Joel Cauchi: The Sydney attacker’s secret life as a male escort
Police will investigate whether Joel Cauchi targeted women during the rampage as details about his itinerant life emerge
Parents of ‘monster’ Sydney knife attacker say son was angry he ‘couldn’t get a girlfriend’
Parents of Sydney knife attacker ‘extremely sorry’ after son kills six
Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 12 others, including a nine-month old baby
Frenchman who took on Sydney mall attacker offered permanent Australian residency
Frenchman who took on Sydney mall attacker offered permanent Australian residency
Damien Guerot engaged Cauchi on escalator, forcing him to flee
Sydney rocked by second stabbing in days as bishop and worshippers targeted at church
Sydney rocked by second stabbing in days as bishop and worshippers targeted at church
New South Wales Police arrested 15 year-old boy after being called to the stabbing at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, west Sydney
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