Webb said most of those killed were women.
Webb said the police “don’t have fears for that person holding an ideation, in other words, that it’s not a terrorism incident.”
Major incident
Those in hospital are in a serious or critical condition.
Cooke added that there was nothing on the scene to indicate any motive or any ideology, but said police were not ruling out terrorism.
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A single officer
“Our hearts go out to all of [the victims], as they do to anyone touched by this terrible incident,” Cooke said, later adding that he had never seen anything like this incident.
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Families walk out of the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on 13 April, 2024. Source: Getty / David Gray
“A mass of people running”
“It sounded like someone was getting hurt,” he said.
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Shoppers hiding in stores
Witnesses speaking to media reported the heroic actions of shop workers who took shoppers into their stores and locked the doors for safety.