four peopleincluding a police officer, were injured in a several stab wounds in Sydney, Australia, early Sunday morning. It is the latest in a series of knife attacks this year in Australia’s largest city.
A man who fled after the attack was arrestedpolice reported.
The multiple stabbings occurred after a “domestic” incident in which a car collided with another vehicle in the southern suburbs of the Engadine.
Multiple stabbing attack in Sydney leaves four injured.
According to the police, The attacker “was armed with what we believe to be a box cutter,” ” Police Commissioner Donald Faulds said at a televised news conference.
Aerial footage of the scene taken by the Australian Broadcasting Corp showed two vehicles crushed and cordoned off with police tape.
Sydney, a city of 5 million people, suffered a series of knife attacks last year, prompting the New South Wales government to toughen its laws on such weapons.
Last June, the state legislature approved several laws authorizing police to use electronic metal-detecting scanners to screen people without a warrant at shopping malls, sports venues and public transportation stations.
On April 13, Six people killed, 12 injured in knife attack in a shopping centre in the Bondi district of Sydney.
Two days later, youn A priest and several parishioners were stabbed by a man during a mass at a Christian church in Sydney, police said.
