2024-05-09 01:14:14
Australian police have shot and killed a 16-year-old who attacked a man with a knife on the continent’s west coast. This was reported by the Western Australia State Police Department, Day.Az reports with reference to TASS.
Officers responded to the scene after a report of an armed attack in a Perth car park, Police Commissioner Col Blanche said. “They found a 16-year-old boy with a large kitchen knife who tried to attack the arriving police and was wounded by them,” he said, noting that the teenager later died in hospital.
Police said the attack “was random” and the teenager acted alone, and his aggression was provoked by “radical sentiments that he was influenced by on the Internet.” “At this stage, we are not classifying the incident as an act of terrorism, but the attack certainly has signs that may allow it to be reclassified as a terrorist attack in the future,” Blanche said.
The department also noted that the man wounded during the attack was hospitalized. His condition remains serious.
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