Suspect in German stabbing rampage is Syrian man, who confessed, authorities say
Frankfurt, Germany Reuters German police said they were holding a 26-year-old Syrian man in custody on Sunday after a knife attack in the city of Solingen in which three people were killed and eight injured, adding that they were looking into the suspect’s possible links with Islamic State. The incident, along with the militant group’s […]
Australian police charge five teenagers in Sydney cleric’s stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers with terrorism-related offences in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a livestreamed sermon earlier this month. The five boys, who were due in children’s court on Thursday, were arrested on Wednesday in the Sydney region. Police […]
Teenager charged with terrorism over Sydney bishop stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack. Police from the joint counter terrorism team questioned the boy, who is in a […]
Sydney knife attacker shot dead after killing six in Bondi mall
Sydney, Australia Reuters An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot by a police officer after he attacked shoppers in the busy Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre, a […]
Four toddlers stabbed in France, government says suspect is Syrian refugee
Annecy, France Reuters Four toddlers and two pensioners were stabbed in a knife attack in the tranquil French mountain town of Annecy on Thursday and the government said the suspected assailant was a Syrian refugee. A video of the attack, taken by a bystander and verified by Reuters, showed the assailant jump a low wall […]
Updated: Tunisian man beheads woman, kills two more people in Nice church
Last updated: 12.45pm, 30th October, 2020 (AEDT) Paris/Nice, France Reuters A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Greatest”) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police. President Emmanuel Macron said France would deploy thousands […]
In the US, knife rampage at rabbi’s home was domestic terrorism, New York governor says
New York, US Reuters New York’s Governor said a knife attack by an assailant who burst into a party at an Hasidic rabbi’s home and stabbed five people late on Saturday was an act of domestic terrorism. Visiting the scene in Rockland County, about 48 kilometres north of New York City, Governor Andrew Cuomo met […]