Terror attack in Melbourne, Australia; perp shot dead (Somali muzzie)

[mzkitty]

Forsan News EN
‏ @Fnews_english
12m12 minutes ago

#BREAKING
Attacker in #stabbing incident in #Melbourne died in hospital after being shot


Desert Hawk
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‏ @Syrian_Uruk
5m5 minutes ago

🚨#Breaking: Man stabbed several people, attacked police and ‘set car on fire’ in #Melbourne

#Australia police is treating the event as a "Terror incident"; 1 killed, 2 injured: Report: attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" - "moderate refugee"

Little video here:

https://twitter.com/Syrian_Uruk


Amichai Stein
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13m13 minutes ago

Amichai Stein Retweeted Amichai Stein

#BREAKING: Australia police is treating the event as a "Terror incident"; 1 killed, 2 injured: Report: attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar"


Short vid here:

Amichai Stein
‏Verified account @AmichaiStein1

#BREAKING: Australian police report multiple people hurt in a rush hour #stabbing in #Melbourne

https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/st...84589998821376

[mzkitty]

Melbourne terror attack: Gas canisters found in vehicle belonging to man behind deadly stabbings in suspected terrorism

Knife attacker shot by police among shoppers in busy Melbourne street

3 minutes ago

Police found gas canisters in a vehicle belonging to a man who stabbed three people in Melbourne before being shot dead by officers, in an attack police are now treating as terrorism.

The attacker – and some of his relatives - was known to the police and the Australian intelligence services, but his identity has not yet been released.

The chief commissioner of Victoria Police, Graham Ashton, told reporters that an investigation by counter-terrorism officers had been launched.

Police were first called to reports a car was on fire but when they arrived they were attacked by the man, who was armed with a knife.

Videos taken by bystanders show a lengthy confrontation between the police and the attacker.

The man lunges repeatedly at the two officers with his knife, while they attempt to incapacitate him with pepper spray and a taser.

One member of the public tries to help the police by hurling a metal shopping trolley at the knifeman.

Eventually one of the officers draws his pistol and shoots the attacker in the chest, who then drops to the ground.

Mr Ashton said that the knifeman and three other people who were stabbed by him were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, but he and one of the victims have now died from their injuries.

The other two victims are still being treated in hospital but their wounds are not thought to be life-threatening.

When the fire brigade arrived to put out the blaze they discovered that there were several "barbecue-style" gas canisters inside. A bomb disposal team was then called, who have made the scene safe.

The police officers attacked during the incident only suffered minor injuries and their "cuts and scratches" are being treated at police station in Melbourne.

Mr Ashton, however, denied claims that the man had shouted Allahu Akbar during the attack and said he had not tried to decapitate anyone. One of the stab victims had suffered "significant head injuries".

More follows…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8625481.html

[mzkitty]

Nine News Melbourne
‏Verified account @9NewsMelb
4m4 minutes ago

#BREAKING: The suspect died in hospital 30 minutes after arriving. The incident is being treated as terror-related. #9News

More here, including other pictures:

https://www.9news.com.au/national/20...=Social-9NewsM

[mzkitty]

Bang, bang, you're dead:

[mzkitty]

Psycho Somali muzzie:


No one knows what's going on
@IamCatyI
4m4 minutes ago

MELBOURNE CBD AFRICAN ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK

The Sun just updated to THE TRUTH. You know people have had enough when they shout "SHOOT HIM" from the sides!

#mediaontrial #mediawatch #hoaxedmovie #breaking #auspol #livepd #BourkeStreet #afd #plaasmoorde
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/769752...s-attack-cops/ …

[pops88]

Thankfully it wasn't worse. Doesn't seem like he was very "moderate."

was known to the police and the Australian intelligence services

Not "known" enough though.

[mzkitty]

Of course they do:




WION
‏Verified account @WIONews
4m4 minutes ago

#Breaking | ISIS claims responsibility for the #MelbourneStabbing attack #MelbourneAttack

[China Connection]

Only shot him once. There is a problem with them down in Victoria.

[mzkitty]

Only shot him once. There is a problem with them down in Victoria.

Well...... once was enough. He be daid.

[Doat]

Are the globalist sacrificing us in the name of diversity and inclusion?

[mzkitty]

Are the globalist sacrificing us in the name of diversity and inclusion?

That's been obvious for ages now.

[Laurane]

Gun trumps Knife.....

[vestige]

The attacker – and some of his relatives - was known to the police and the Australian intelligence services, but his identity has not yet been released.

Why not?

[mzkitty]

Why not?

Not sure yet, although they have released other details:

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(Updated: 09 Nov 2018 11:41PM)

MELBOURNE: A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the centre of the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday (Nov 9) and stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police in a rampage they called an act of terrorism.

The utility truck carrying barbecue gas cylinders burned on busy Bourke Street just before the evening rush hour as the driver, who police said was 31, stabbed bystanders and attacked police.

The cylinders did not explode and the fire was put out in 10 minutes, by which point the attack was over.

He stabbed three people before being confronted by armed officers who eventually shot him in the chest. One victim died at the scene and the attacker died later in hospital, Victoria Police Commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters.

All of the victims were men, Ashton said. He declined to release their names because police were still in the process of contacting families.

Police later said the two wounded men were aged 26 and 58.

Counter-terrorism police and intelligence officers are still piecing together how the incident occurred, but said the attacker was known to intelligence services.

"We don't believe there is an ongoing threat at this stage, but certainly we are treating it as a terrorism incident," Ashton said. He declined to identify the attacker, but said he was Somali with "family associations that are well known to us".

Asked about what the attacker had been planning, Ashton referred to the gas cylinders in the car and said: "You could make certain assumptions from that."

Security arrangements at Remembrance Day memorials and other public events scheduled over the weekend will be reassessed and it was likely police numbers there boosted, said Ashton.

On Friday evening, the Islamic State group claimed the incident via its propaganda agency Amaq, saying: "The perpetrator of the operation... in Melbourne... was an Islamic State fighter and carried out the operation... to target nationals of the coalition" fighting IS.

TEN MINUTES OF CHAOS

Witness footage showed police struggling for at least a minute to corral the towering man - who was wearing a dark tunic - as he lunged, slashed and stabbed wildly at two officers, while a car burned in the background.

On Bourke St. Roads blocked. pic.twitter.com/wimeJLNXWy
— mike yang (@fayfayang) November 9, 2018

At least two members of the public bravely stepped in to help police. One man was armed with a cafe chair while another - swiftly dubbed an "Aussie hero" on social media - repeatedly tried to ram the suspect with an empty metal shopping cart.

But the attacks continued unabated before one officer opted for lethal force, shooting the suspect in the chest.

David Clayton, police superintendent of Victoria state, told reporters that police had arrived at Bourke Street, a busy shopping thoroughfare, in response to a car fire. As flames engulfed the vehicle, the man attacked them and they shot him in the struggle, he said.

Warning sirens sounded after the attack and police sealed off the downtown area, usually busy with shoppers and diners on a Friday evening.

The bomb squad was deployed to assess the area and television footage showed police combing the street for evidence.

Witness Chris Newport, 60, described how he first heard a loud noise and saw a truck on fire, rolling across the tram tracks before a second, louder bang.

"He was holding a knife and running around the place," he said of the attacker.

"Someone had a shopping trolley and was trying to stop him. Two police turned up really quickly, but there was only a couple of them. He started to go at them and there was a loud bang - they shot him," he told AFP.

The police officers are being treated for cuts and scrapes and are not thought to be in a serious condition.

A witness, Markel Villasin, told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio: "Bystanders were yelling out 'just shoot him, just shoot him'."

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the attack was "an evil, terrifying thing that's happened in our city".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement released on Twitter: "Australia will never be intimidated by these appalling attacks."

DOUBLE BLOW FOR CITY

The unnamed assailant was said to reside in Melbourne's northwestern suburbs, but had come to Australia from Somalia in or around the 1990s, when the country was ravaged by a civil war.

The police chief refused to give more details due to the ongoing investigation, but the authorities will face inevitable questions about how someone known to the intelligence services nonetheless managed to carry out an attack.

The counter-terrorism command has taken a lead role in the investigation and police have set up a three-block-wide exclusion zone.

Forensic investigators combed through the scene late Friday, where the dead victim's body lay covered in a white plastic sheet.

Melbourne is Australia's second largest city, a cosmopolitan metropolis of almost five million people famed for its cafes, bars, restaurants and high standard of living.

Friday's attack is a double blow for the city as it coincides with an ongoing murder trial of 28-year-old James Gargasoulas, accused of ploughing his car into crowds in the same area in 2017, killing six people and wounding about 30.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...-dies-10913484

[Dennis Olson]

Only shot him once. There is a problem with them down in Victoria.

Well...... once was enough. He be daid.

The raghead scum needed AT LEAST a double-tap.

[mzkitty]

No one knows what's going on🍓🆒
‏ @IamCatyI
3m3 minutes ago
Replying to @myheartofmusic

#MELBOURNE ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK BY SOMALIAN

Mohamed Khalif, aka Hassan Shire, the Bourke Street terrorist is brother of Ali Khalif Shire Ali, an 'ISIS sympathiser whose bomb plot was foiled.'

#dkpol #qanon #tommyrobinson #breaking #livepd @GypsyHart73

Pictures here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...st-attack.html

[vestige]

Looks familiar.

"White" cops trying to control non-cooperative "black" committing a crime.

Are Aussie cops racist like American cops have been accused of being?

Were this "black" criminal's ancestors slaves of "whites?"

Was this "black" a kang and just pissed at his present situation?

Has anyone ever considered that the problem may just be with "blacks".... everywhere?

There is a pattern here if you don't look away.

[China Connection]

If they are only going to shoot once then the cops need to be using sawn-off shotguns


From what I hear and read not one Somalian should have been allowed into this country. I am not a racist, meaning I don't give a shit what color a person is but Somalians are trouble wherever they go.

[Secamp32]

Wtf if wrong with these cops? Someone comes at me with a knife I'm not playing with pepper spray or a taser. He's taking a dirty nap rtf now.

[Profit of Doom]

Gun trumps Knife.....

New version of Rock, Paper, Scissors?
I like it.

[Housecarl]

Wtf if wrong with these cops? Someone comes at me with a knife I'm not playing with pepper spray or a taser. He's taking a dirty nap rtf now.

Likely as not "touching one off" carries more legal liability than the Aussie cops wanted to endure up to the point of one of them finally deciding to shoot him.

[Profit of Doom]

If they are only going to shoot once then the cops need to be using sawn-off shotguns


From what I hear and read not one Somalian should have been allowed into this country. I am not a racist, meaning I don't give a shit what color a person is but Somalians are trouble wherever they go.

Just ask Captain Phillips.