SYDNEY: 4 individuals together with a police officer have been injured in a stabbing assault in Sydney early on Sunday (Aug 25), police mentioned, the most recent in a collection of knife assaults in Australia’s largest metropolis this 12 months.
A person who ran from the scene has been taken into custody, police mentioned in a press release. There isn’t any ongoing risk to individuals in Sydney, mentioned New South Wales State Police Minister Yasmin Catley.
Police mentioned nobody was killed within the assault, which got here after a “domestic-related” incident in a automobile that collided with one other car within the southern suburb of Engadine.
The attacker “was armed with what we imagine to be a boxcutter”, police superintendent Donald Faulds mentioned in a televised press convention.
Aerial footage of the scene by the Australian Broadcasting Corp confirmed two crashed vehicles cordoned off with police tape.
Sydney, a metropolis of 5 million, has seen a spate of knife assaults this 12 months, prompting the New South Wales authorities to toughen its knife legal guidelines. The state parliament handed legal guidelines in June giving police digital metal-detecting scanners to verify individuals with no warrant at purchasing centres, sporting venues and public transport stations.
In April, six people were killed and 12 injured in a knife assault at a mall in Sydney’s Bondi space.
