Sydney city centre streets in lockdown following fatal stabbing
Several streets in the centre of Sydney have been cordoned off after one woman was murdered and at least one other was stabbed by a man brandishing a butcher’s knife in the city centre.
Video footage posted on Twitter show several members of the public – two of them believed to be British – apprehending the assailant on busy King Street using chairs and a plastic crate.
They managed to pin the man to the ground in the street while waiting for the police to arrive.
Police later confirmed that the body of woman with a slit throat was later found in an apartment nearby and another woman was taken to hospital.
A third woman is also believed to have walked into a police station with a stab wound to her hand.
The man is understood to have recently been released from a mental health institution.
In the video, he can be heard shouting "Allahu akbar" before he calls out for someone to "shoot me in the f****** head". A witness told a 7 News reporter that the assailant ‘just stabbed a chick’.
New South Wales state police said in a statement that a man was arrested, and that a woman was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
They said they were dealing with ‘multiple crime scenes’ and urged people to avoid the area around King St and Clarence St in Sydney city centre.
Photo of King St by Adam JWC
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