Three people, including a nine-month-old baby girl, are in critical condition in hospital after they were injured in a stabbing spree at Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
Knife-wielding Joel Cauchi, 40, carried out the mass attack at the Westfield shopping centre yesterday afternoon, which sparked an enormous emergency response.
Six people, five women and one man, were killed while a dozen more, ten females and two men, were injured and rushed to different hospitals around the city.
NSW Health has confirmed that three people – a woman, man and a nine-month-old baby girl – remain in critical condition this afternoon while eight others are stable and one woman has been discharged from hospital.
Currently, there are three women in stable condition at St Vincent’s Hospital. A man is also there in critical but stable condition.
Another woman is critical and a man is stable at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
The nine-month-old baby girl, who underwent surgery, is in critical but stable condition in intensive care at Sydney Children’s Hospital.
One woman at Royal North Shore Hospital is in serious but stable condition.
Three further women, two at Prince of Wales Hospital and one at St George Hospital, are all stable.
And a woman was today discharged from Prince of Wales Hospital.
NSW Health extended its “deepest sympathies” to the families, friends and loved ones of those who died and were injured.
So far, only four killed have been identified; the nine-month-old’s mother Ashlee Good, daughter of millionaire businessman Dawn Singleton, architect and mother-of-two Jade Young and refugee Faraz Tahir.
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The 40-year-old was known to police due to his long history of mental health issues.
- Six people have been killed in a mass stabbing attack at Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- The man, 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, was shot dead by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott at the scene. Police do not believe he acted “with ideation”.
- Twelve people were taken to hospital, though police said others may have presented independently with minor injuries.
- Five women and one man were killed in the attack, which also left a dozen injured.
- They include Faraz Tahir, 30, a refugee who started working as a security guard that day; Ashlee Good, 38, a mum whose baby was also stabbed; Dawn Singleton 25, a shop worker and daughter of businessman John Singleton, and architect and mother-of-two Jade Young, 47.
- Three people – a woman, man and a nine-month-old baby girl – remain in a critical condition.
- Eight others are stable and one woman has been discharged from hospital.
- Details are emerging of heroic acts by shoppers who tried to help as the rampage unfolded.
- Mobile phone footage shows crowds hiding in stairwells, with other shoppers saying they were evacuated to the roof and others cowered in shops.
- The shopping centre will remain closed on Monday as police work through the crime scene.
