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One stabbed in central Sydney street attack
SYDNEY, Aug 13, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Australian police arrested a man who
stabbed a woman and chased several others in central Sydney Tuesday before
being pinned down by members of the public, eyewitnesses told AFP.
Megan Hayley said a man with a large kitchen knife chased several people
though a busy office district and “five or six others were chasing him
behind, trying to stop him, they caught him and restrained him” with chairs
and a plastic crate.
Images broadcast by Australian media showed the man jumping on the roof of
a car brandishing a knife shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “shoot me”.
Police said the man had been detained and the woman was in a “stable”
condition.
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