On a perfect mid-autumn day, the scene at the upscale mall in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, was as humdrum as it was idyllic: mothers pushing strollers, gaggles of teenagers being young, families whiling away the weekend afternoon.
A mile from the famed Bondi Beach, a knife-wielding attacker stabbed nearly 20 people inside the shopping mall, including a 9-month-old girl.
Six of the victims, including the girl’s mother, have died, and about a dozen others were being treated at hospitals.
The police on Sunday were combing through a crime scene spanning several floors of the sprawling Westfield Bondi Junction mall.
They were also interviewing hundreds of witnesses to Saturday’s attack, trying to piece together the chronology of a rampage that punctured a sense of security in this wealthy suburb of Australia’s largest city.
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Sydney, Australia, Bondi, Westfield, Australia’s