Armed attack in Sydney, where a 60 -year -old man began to shoot with the window to a street full of people: at least 16 wounded
A shooter sowed the panic Sunday night, pulling dozens of times in a very crowded commercial street in Sydney, hurting 16 people, Australian police announced on Monday by France Presse.
The reasons for the 60 -year -old suspect, arrested and admitted to the hospital, remain unknown, with the law enforcement forces excluding any connection with organized terrorism or crime.
The incident, rarely in a country where the port of weapons is strictly controlled, happened in the Central Inner West neighborhood.
According to the police, the 60 -year -old man randomly fired from his home, located on the floor above a store, where he was arrested almost two hours after the incident was notified to the authorities.
“It was panic. It all happened so quickly that I didn't understand what was happening,” said Joe Azar, who worked in an office nearby when he heard what he initially thought were fireworks or stones thrown in the windows.
“The windshield of a car exploded, then the window of the bus station broke,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald.
According to a new police balance on Monday, 16 people were injured and approximately 50 firearms.
Initially, on Sunday, law enforcement had announced that 20 people had been injured and that almost a hundred firearms were fired.
The author “dragged without discernment on the passing vehicles, including police vehicles,” saidpoly.
A rifle was confiscated at the time of arrest of the suspect, who was transported to the hospital to be cared for for minor injuries during the arrest. He was not charged at this stage.
“As if I was in a movie”
Following the incident, a man presented at the hospital with a wound by shooting. It has high chances of survival, according to the police.
The other people were taken care of for wounds caused by the shrapnel, especially by glass, and several were transported to the hospital.
“He was very noisy, with” bang, bang, bang “, flashes, sparks, smoke, all the cutlery,” said a witness, who presented as Tadgh, for the ABC channel. “I was in a movie, serious,” he added.
Mass shoots are relatively rare in Australia.
Automatic and semi -automatic weapons are banned in the country since the 1996 mass attack from Port Arthur, Tasmania, during which a single shooter killed 35 people.
In August this year, Dezi Freeman fled to the wild after being accused of killing two policemen. He is still in freedom.
In 2022, six people, of whom two policemen were killed in an exchange of fires near the small city of Wieambilla in Queensland.
