Sydney Attacker Went on “Killing Spree”, Would Not Have Stopped: Witness

The mother of the baby, who was also stabbed, was holding the baby as it was taken to an ambulance, Reese Colmenares, a witness, told news agency Reuters. Ms Colmenares was one of the 20 people who hid in a nearby hardware store when she saw people screaming and running out of the Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex.

“It’s scary, there are little children and elderly and people in wheelchairs everywhere,” she said. She escaped using an emergency exit and took shelter in a back room.

“I am alive and grateful,” she told news agency AFP. “I saw the whole thing in front of me.

Twenty minutes after the people rushed out of the mall, police teams entered the scene and started sweeping the area to locate the attacker.” “If she did not shoot him, he would have kept going, he was on the rampage.

He had a nice, big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree,” he said.

People who fled alerted others about the stabbings. Eight people were hospitalized across Sydney, including a baby.

In total, the man killed five women and one man. “Tragically, multiple casualties have been reported and the first thoughts of all Australians are with those affected and their loved ones,” Australian PM Anthony Albanese wrote.

Police have denied that the attack was an act of terrorism, saying that the man acted alone.