Westfield Bondi Junction incident live updates: Heartbreak as mother of nine-month-old baby becomes the seventh victim of horror shopping centre bloodbath

A young mum stabbed to death while shopping with her nine-month baby posted a heartbreaking photo of them together just hours before the horror attack.

Ash Good, 38, was among the six innocent shoppers at Sydney’s Bondi Junction Westfield who were killed at random on Saturday, when a man, 40, dressed in a Kangaroos rugby league jersey, went on a stabbing rampage about 3:20pm.

He was fatally shot by a female police officer.

A total of nine people, including Ms Good’s baby Harriet, suffered knife wounds.

The infant is now fighting for life after being rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.

Just hours before the horror unfolded, Ms Good posted a photo to Instagram with her baby in her arms.

‘Only because I was walking past and happened to be wearing the same thing 9 months out vs 9 months in etc etc,’ the caption read.

The knifeman, believed to be 40-years-old, initially entered the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre at about 3.10pm on Saturday and left.

He returned at about 3.20pm and stabbed multiple people, with six shoppers, five women and one man, killed.

Shocking footage showed the man, who was wearing a Kangaroos jersey for the Australian rugby league team, running around the centre armed with a large knife.

A senior female police inspector immediately jumped into action and followed the man who was on the top level of the centre.

He turned to face the officer and raised his knife before she fired her gun, killing the offender.

The officer performed CPR on the man but he died at the scene.

The rampage is believed to have lasted for about 15 minutes.

One woman at the scene said she saw paramedics in tears following the traumatising event.

NSW Police said the attacker was acting alone and told the community there was no ongoing threat.

The man is yet to be formally identified but NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said he was known to law enforcement.

She said the attack is not believed to be related to terrorism.

Six people have died as a result of stabbing injuries, including the 38-year-old mother of a baby who was also injured.

Eight others remain in hospital in various conditions.

The shopping centre has been closed and will remain shut on Sunday.

The woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital on Saturday evening.

She was one of six people stabbed to death at Bondi Junction Westfield.

The knifeman was also killed with the current death toll at seven.

Seven people, including six innocent shoppers, are dead following a terrifying stabbing attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre before the knifeman was fatally shot by police.

Multiple other shoppers have been injured in the attack, with the Westfield complex in Sydney’s east, going into lockdown just before 4pm on Saturday.

Shocking footage has emerged of victims lying in pools of blood while police desperately try to save their lives.

Paramedics rushed eight patients, including a nine-month-old baby, to hospital following the stabbing attack on Saturday afternoon.

NSW Ambulance said 40 resources were deployed to the scene including four medical units.

Five shoppers had been killed in the shopping centre, including four women and one man.

A sixth victim, a 38-year-old mother, succumbed to her injuries in hospital later on Friday night.

Eight people remain in hospital, including the 38-year-old’s baby who has undergone surgery.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have sent their condolences to those impacted by the stabbing in Sydney on Saturday.

‘We are shocked and saddened by the terrible events in Sydney earlier today,’ they wrote.

‘Our thoughts are with all those affected, including the loved ones of those lost and the heroic emergency responders who risked their own lives to save others. W & C.’

Australian actress Magda Szubanski and soccer superstar Sam Kerr have shared messages of support to those impacted by the Bondi Junction stabbing.

‘Absolutely devastated by the news coming out of Bondi Junction,’ Szubanski wrote to X.

‘My heart goes out to the victims, family, first responders and all the people traumatised by the actions of this one man. Such courage and care shown by so many people-especially #bollard man and the policewoman who shot the perp.’

Kerr shared an Instagram story with the message: ‘Thinking of everyone in Bondi’ with a sad face and love heart emoji.

Billionaire chicken heiress Jessica Ingham also shared a message of support to the victims.

‘My heart goes out to all the victims involved in this horrific Bondi Junction incident,’ she said.

Police Commissioner Karen Webb was enjoying some rare respite from weeks of attacks when one of her officers shot dead a killer.

Ms Webb was among the guests invited to watch day two of the Sydney Autumn Carnival at Royal Randwick racecourse in the exclusive Director’s Room on Saturday.

Her host was Peter V’landys, chief executive of Racing NSW and chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission.

On the menu was Alaskan crab ravioli, char-grilled Darling Downs beef fillet and tiramisu for dessert.

Among the guests were radio host Ben Fordham – who has been a fierce critic of Ms Webb’s handling of policing issues during her time as commissioner.

Fordham pre-empted any showdown with Ms Webb by fronting the commissioner and light-heartedly asking if she was accompanied by her fifth media spokesperson.

Ms Webb has gone through a series of media advisers, including former Spotlight producer Steve Jackson, who was let go before he started work.

At lunch she was seated next to the editor of the Daily Telegraph, Ben English.

There were also two plain-clothes officers outside the Director’s Room watching their boss through the glass windows.

Among Ms Webb’s fellow guests were some of the most senior media figures in the country, as well as on-air presenters including Sam Armytage and Mel McLaughlin.
Ms Webb was gone by the time news reached the racecourse of the atrocity a couple of suburbs away at Westfield.

But some of the officers previously with her were being briefed about what was happening at Bondi Junction as it unfolded.

Also among the guests was radio and television presenter Deb Knight, who left the track to cover the Westfield massacre on A Current Affair.

The centre will work with police to remove cars that had to be left behind.

It may be several days before people are able to retreive their vehicles.

She said police are still waiting to confirm his identity and did not disclose any other details.

The man is known to law enforcement.

Mr Albanese thanked first responders and heroic bystanders who acted with bravery at the stabbing.

‘Australians will be shocked as I am by an incident such as this,’ he told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.

‘It’s such a shock this happens in a country such as ours, where people should be able to go about their shopping on a Saturday afternoon without any thought that there is risk involved.’

The nine-month-old baby was rushed to hospital after the infant and their mother were stabbed.

It’s unclear what condition the child is in.

Hussein Osseili was at Bondi Juncti0on Westfield with his 6-year-old sister and grandmother when he heard gunshots and immediately knew what they were.

‘I just thought I have to get my family to safety. I told them to leave. Then I saw a man with a big hunting knife – about 30cm long on the escalator in front of Woolies,’ he said.

‘He went past Zara and Kmart, he was waving the knife around and stabbing people.

‘He went to level 5 and then I heard more gunshots from the police. My family is all safe luckily.’

The father was seen escorting his two children away from Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon, with his son and daughter wearing eyemasks.

He held both children close to him as he walked calmly away from the shopping centre.

Many shoppers have been left traumatised after seeing victims lying in pools of blood.

Huma Hussainy and Mohamed Naveed described the dramatic scenes of seeing the knifeman carrying a large hunting knife.

The Parramatta couple heard screaming and saw everyone running while Mr Naveed was paying for a t-shirt and pants.

They then saw the bodies of two young women in their 20s lying outside Cotton On.

‘Then I saw him coming back still holding the knife and I thought he was coming for us,’ he said.

The pair then hid in the Lululemon change rooms for up to an hour.

When they came out they said the bodies of the two young women were still outside the store.

Ms Hussainy guessed the knifeman was about 35.

The senior police inspector jumped into action to confront the knifeman alone.

She began to follow the man who was at the top level of the shopping centre before he turned towards her and raised his knife.

She then fatally shot the man.

The young woman had been at Bondi Junction at the time of the stabbing attack, and was visibly distraught by what had unfolded.

‘It was just like the worst thing ever,’ she told reporters.

‘Who does that to people?’

She said she saw a woman lying in Chanel, who was understood to have been killed.

‘I thought I was going to die,’ she said.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese posted on X just after 6pm on Saturday following the stabbing attack.

‘I have been briefed by the AFP on the devastating events at Bondi Junction. Tragically, multiple casualties have been reported and the first thoughts of all Australians are with those affected and their loved ones,’ he said.

‘Our hearts go out to those injured and we offer our thanks to those caring for them as well as our brave police and first responders.’

Paramedics rushed eight patients, including a nine-month-old baby to hospital following the stabbing attack on Saturday afternoon.

It’s unclear what conditions those patients are in or their ages.

Four shoppers are dead after a knifeman went on a stabbing spree in Bondi Junction.

Shocking footage has emerged of victims lying in pools of blood.

Police officers have been seen desperately working to revive the victims.

A shopper was seen using a bollard from the shopping centre as a weapon to defend himself when he was faced with the knifeman on an escalator at Bondi Junction.

The knifeman, in a Kangaroos jersey, is see approaching the shopper, who readies himself to attack.

The offender was wearing a Kangaroos jersey, from the Australian rugby team, and was seen holding a knife before he was shot three times by a female police officer.

The knifeman is understood to have attacked a mother and her baby before he was fatally shot by police.

The baby is undergoing surgery in hospital.

Hundreds of shoppers at Bondi Junction Westfield were forced to hide amid a terrifying stabbing attack on Saturday afternoon.

Consumer behaviour expert Gary Mortimer shared a screenshot from texts sent by his friend’s young daughter who was at the shopping centre in Sydney’s east.

‘We’re locked inside DJs (David Jones),’ the girl said.

‘All the shops closed their gates.’

The parent responded: ‘please, please be safe’.

By David Southwell

A major incident is unfolding at a major Sydney shopping centre, with reports of a stabbing and at least one gun man on the loose.

Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs is in lockdown after the incident on Saturday afternoon.

Panicked people were seen running across the pedestrian bridge outside the centre in video posted to social media while others said they were being evacuated from the centre’s car park.

Police are attending the scene in massive numbers.

Eastern suburbs local Ted Helliar posted to X: ‘Something just went down at Westfields Bondi junction.’

‘We were up there and all of a sudden all these people running towards us. Next thing dozens and dozens of people all running a screaming some bloke yells ‘someone is stabbing everyone get out of here’.’

Another X user said hundreds of shoppers were hiding in the back of the David Jones department store, which had pulled down its shutters with reports a man had been seen running with a gun in the centre.

A police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia on Saturday afternoon that a major police operation is under way and officers were gathering details at the scene.