A knife-wielding killer went on a cold-blooded rampage by means of a mall in Australia, slaughtering 6 individuals and injuring a number of extra earlier than he was shot lifeless by police.

And, in what has grow to be commonplace for all these incidents, witnesses used cellphone cameras to seize items of Saturday’s scary bloodbath in Sydney’s busy Westfield Bondi Junction mall.

Try this dramatic footage … the alleged 40-year-old suspect was confronted on an escalator by a person making an attempt to fend him off with a pole.

New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb mentioned cops responded to a Saturday afternoon report of a number of individuals stabbed on the procuring middle.

When officers arrived on the mall, they discovered a chaotic state of affairs through which scared buyers had been hiding in shops and working away from the assailant.

The lone perpetrator was ultimately shot lifeless by the identical police inspector who, moments earlier, was dashing towards him to neutralize the menace.

Finally, the suspect was fatally shot by the inspector after he raised his knife at her.

Webb mentioned 4 girls and a person had been killed contained in the mall; one other girl was rushed to an area hospital, the place she later died.

The commissioner additionally mentioned eight different individuals, together with a nine-month-old child, had been being handled for his or her accidents at varied hospitals in Sydney. The extent of their accidents and their situations had been unclear, though the toddler required surgical procedure.