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A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian city of Perth.<\/p>\n
Police were called by the teenager on Saturday night, who had threatened violence before stabbing a man in the car park of a hardware store in Willerton. <\/p>\n
Police commissioner Col Branch told reporters that the incident had \u201challmarks of terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n
Local authorities said that concerns had been raised about his behaviour within the local Muslim community. <\/p>\n
He was shot dead after Tasers failed to subdue him and he lunged towards officers while armed with a knife. <\/p>\n
Western Australian premier Roger Cook said: \u201cThere are indications he had been radicalised online.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Western Australian premier Roger Cook said there were indications the boy had been radicalised online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)A man in his 30s was found at the scene with a stab wound to his back and remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. <\/p>\n
At the time of the incident, the boy had been participating in a programme for young people at risk of radicalisation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to say he has been radicalised or is radicalised because I think that forms part of the investigation,\u201d Western Australian police commissioner Col Blanch said. <\/p>\n
While police officers had received a call from the boy threatening to carry out a violent act at 10pm, they were unaware of his location. They were later alerted by a phone call from a member of the public that a knife attack was underway in the parking lot.<\/p>\n
Three officers were deployed to the scene, with one armed with a gun and two armed with Tasers. He was later killed by a single gunshot wound after failing to comply. <\/p>\n
Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch speaks at a press conference in Perth, Australia (AP)Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had been briefed on the latest stabbing in Perth and said: \u201cI\u2019m advised there is no ongoing threat to the community on the information available.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Imam of Perth\u2019s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, condemned the stabbing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no place for violence in Islam,\u201d Imam Syed Wadood Janud said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate the effort of the police to keep our communities safe. I also want to commend the local Muslim community who had flagged the individual prior with the police,\u201d Wadood added.<\/p>\n
Some Muslim leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring last month\u2019s church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a Sydney shopping mall in which six people were killed and a dozen wounded. The 40-year-old attacker in the mall attack was shot dead by police. Police have yet to reveal the man\u2019s motive.<\/p>\n
The church attack is only the third to be classified by Australian authorities as a terrorist act since 2018.<\/p>\n
In December 2022, three Christian fundamentalists shot dead two police officers and a bystander in an ambush near the community of Wieambilla in Queensland state. The shooters were later killed by police.<\/p>\n
In November 2018, a Somalia-born Muslim stabbed three pedestrians in downtown Melbourne, killing one, before police shot him dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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