NSW Police are expected to provide an update at 8am on the stabbing massacre at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday, an incident that has left the country reeling.
The 40-year-old knifeman was killed by a senior police officer who ran into the shopping centre to confront the man alone.
He stabbed more than a dozen people, including a nine-month-old baby. She is in hospital after undergoing surgery on Saturday night.
Her mother, 38-year-old Ash Good, was one of the six people fatally stabbed by the assailant who began his rampage in one of the country’s biggest shopping centres after 3.20pm.
Of the six people killed, five were women.
No motive has been determined yet and the knifeman is still to be formally identified.
NSW Police are providing an update at 8am.
At least another seven people were injured and taken to hospital in either serious or critical conditions.
Police say the lone man, who wore a Kangaroos jersey and wielded a knife, could have killed and injured more had it not been for the bravery of one senior police officer who chased after him and ultimately shot him.
At this stage, police don’t believe the incident was terrorism motivated, but say they aren’t ruling anything out.
Westfield Bondi Junction remains closed on Sunday. But arrangements are being made to allow people to retrieve their cars from the car park.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed his horror at the attack, as has King Charles III and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Meanwhile NSW Premier Chris Minns has cut short a family holiday to fly back to Sydney from Japan.
More to come