Hero Confronts Sydney Attacker in Bondi Junction Massacre: Shocking Footage Revealed

2024-04-13 18:51:50

The attack began after 3 p.m. (Australian time). After an intense search, a high-ranking officer detained the attacker and killed him in the middle of a shootout.

April 13, 2024, 3:51 p.m.

A man tried to stop the Sydney attacker. (Video: Courtesy of The Sidney Herald Morning)

A hero, whose identity could not be determined, stood up to the Sydney attacker who in the middle of a Bondi Junction shopping center began chasing and stabbing people who crossed his path. The massacre left six people dead and multiple injured.

This anonymous man tried to stop the attacker on an escalator with a kind of stool. His brave act was recorded thanks to the fact that, in the midst of the horror, a person, who was on the upper floor where the attack began, managed to record everything with his cell phone.

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This is how he attacked people. (Video: Courtesy of The Sidney Herald Morning)

In one of the videos you can see the exact moment in which this man confronted him while giving the rest of the people time to flee.

In another of the recordings made by witnesses, you can see how the attacker, totally out of his mind, began to run, chase and attack anyone who crossed his path with the knife he was carrying in his right hand. Even though the shopping center was full of kids, he didn’t care to spread horror and fear throughout the place.

According to witnesses, the attacker was carrying a 30-centimeter knife. Eight people, including a baby, were rushed to nearby hospitals.

The police quickly arrived at the scene and ordered the shopping to close. After an intense search, an officer from the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command confronted the attacker and killed him in the middle of a shootout. Although the causes of the attack are unknown, authorities do not rule out that it was a terrorist attack.

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Some security cameras on the site and footage of shoppers who were in the shopping center managed to capture the aggressor. In the images, he can be seen wearing a sports shirt and shorts walking with the cutting element in his right hand.

A man who was walking through the shopping mall at the time of the incident told the Nine News portal that the murderer “seemed scattered and chaotic.” Furthermore, he pointed out that he did not have a specific victim, but rather carried out the attacks randomly.

The shopping’s security cameras and some civilians filmed the aggressor while he carried out his attacks. (Photo: The Sydney Herald Morning)

Penny Sharpe, Premier of New South Wales, said: “I am shocked by reports of multiple casualties in Bondi Junction this afternoon. “My thoughts and those of the New South Wales Government are with the victims, their families and first responders at this time, as well as those who may have witnessed these horrific events.”

New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Anthony Cook said the man acted alone. “At approximately 3:10 p.m., a man entered a restaurant in Bondi Junction, left the center and then returned around 3:20,” he said at a conference given at around 5:45 p.m. (Australian time). .

“Just before 4pm, emergency services were called to Westfield Bondi Junction following reports of a number of people being stabbed. People are urged to avoid the area. “Investigations continue in relation to the incident and there are no further details,” was the statement released by the New South Wales Police.

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