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Reports of six dead in Bondi Junction stabbing and shooting
By Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
There are reports of up to six people dead in the stabbing and shooting in the Bondi Junction shopping centre.
Officers from commands all over Sydney are likely to be deployed to the shopping centre in the coming hours, with an enormous crime scene likely to take up to two day to process.
Men recall helping bleeding mother and baby
By Sarah McPhee
Two men have just spoken to Nine News about helping a baby and its mother who were both bleeding.
The pair, who indicated they were brothers, said they saw a man “run up to the woman with the baby”.
Bondi Junction Westfield and streets surrounding were in lockdown and closed as police and ambulance respond to multiple stabbing and shooting casualties.Credit: Oscar Colman
“We got them into the store ... rang for help,” one of the men said.
The men said the baby’s mother had been stabbed, and they were trying to compress the baby’s wounds, including using shirts from the shop.
Escape through a fire exit
By Nigel Gladstone
Ellie Williams, 21, was finishing lunch on the top floor of Westfield Bondi food court with her friend about 3.40 pm when she saw groups of people running and screaming.
“People were so confused and we were told a guy was stabbing people on the floors below”, she said.
People were being locked into stores and we looked down and saw a guy with a knife wearing a hoodie chasing people, she said.
“I heard a man scream as we were about to go down the escalator,” Ellie said, and as she left through the fire escape she heard three gunshots.
There were no police in the building and no alarms were going off when this happened she said.
Witness recounts seeing bodies in Westfield
By Rachel Clun and Sarah McPhee
An eyewitness said shoppers were panicking and running as he went to enter Bondi Junction this afternoon.
“People were absolutely petrified, and just so many young kids,” a man named Andrew told Nine News.
He had just arrived with his daughter and was going down an escalator when chaos broke out.
“It was just general pandemonium trying to get out of there,” he said. “A lady, she had fallen over on the escalator.”
One woman, named Aviva, told 2GB Radio she left Coles to try to get to her car and “came across dead bodies on the ground”.
“I saw two,” she said.
“It’s awful, it’s just terrible, I’m in shock.”
Shoppers released from lockdown
By Amber Schultz
Shoppers have started to be released from lockdown inside Westfield, with police lifting up tape to allow them out of the cordoned area.
Emergency services at the scene. Credit: Oscar Colman
Helen Hewett was in the Apple store when staff shut the doors and ushered everyone to the back of the store.
“We had no idea what was going on, but we heard there was a shooting outside Coles,” she said.
The store was in lockdown from just after 5pm for about 45 minutes.
Shoppers recount chaos and stampede
By Amber Schultz
Hannah Bodrozic and Guy Johnston were shopping in Country Road when they saw a group of around 20 young people fleeing down the escalators.
They didn’t understand what was happening until someone screamed: “There’s a man stabbing people!”
From there chaos erupted.“We didn’t really know where to go. We tried to go back in the other building but there were people running down that direction,” Bodrozic said.
The couple froze as shops around them slammed their shutters shut, with groups of people running in every direction.
“Then we heard three gunshots and everyone just started screaming,” she said.
Around 100 people stampeded out the exit, she said.
“You’d never expect something like this in Sydney,” Johnston said.
Critical incident declared, police probe possible terror links
By Perry Duffin
Police responded to reports of multiple people stabbed at Bondi Westfield just before 4pm. Heavily armed tactical operations police responded and shot a male offender.
Scenes outside the shopping centre on Saturday afternoon. Credit: Nine News
Four victims have been located by officers so far.
There are unconfirmed reports of a second male offender at the scene. Police are still trying to gather information about motivation - terrorism links are being considered.
Bondi Junction Westfield is locked down amid reports of multiple stabbings
By Sally Rawsthorne
The Herald can confirm four people have died in a stabbing spree at the Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon.
“Many more” are in a critical condition, a police source not authorised to speak publicly said.
Police have shot one person; it is unclear if the shot was fatal.
The elite Tactical Operations Unit was on scene on Saturday afternoon.
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