“Radicalized” Australian youngster shoots and stabs guy

In Perth, a city on Australia’s west coast, a 16-year-old teenager with a knife attacked a guy before being shot by the police.

The incident happened on Saturday night in the suburban Willetton hardware store parking lot. Premier of Western Australia Roger Cook told reporters on Sunday that the adolescent had assaulted the guy and then dashed towards police officers before being shot.

“It appears he was radicalized on the internet,” Cook said at a press conference. Cook went on, “But at this point, I want to reassure the community that it appears that he acted solely and alone.”

At the site, a guy in his 30s was discovered suffering from a back stab wound. According to a police statement, he was transferred to a hospital in a severe but stable condition. Since another 16-year-old kid attacked an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest in a church on April 15, the Police and officers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization have been conducting a counterterrorism investigation in Sydney, a city on the east coast. — AP

An increase in knife assaults

April 15: A 16-year-old kid stabbed an Assyrian Christian bishop during a sermon that was being televised live in Sydney. Several adolescents were accused by the New South Wales police with offenses connected to terrorism.
April 13: At a mall in Bondi, a coastal district of Sydney, a man fatally stabbed six people. Like most of the 12 wounded, five of the dead were women.