Knife Attack Leaves One Dead in Melbourne, Australia
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Assault is being treated as a terrorist attack, police say.
A knife-wielding attacker who killed one person and wounded two others before being shot dead by police in Australia’s second-largest city was previously known to intelligence officials and the assault is being treated as a terrorist attack, authorities said.
Police declined to identify the suspect, who died in the hospital shortly after the attack in Melbourne on Friday, but said his relatives are also known to the authorities. Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton, who leads the state police in Melbourne, said the man came to Australia in the 1990s and didn’t dispute a reporter’s assertion in a press conference that he came from Somalia.
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