Stabbing incident in Sydney leaves bishop, others injured

Another stabbing incident was reported in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, this time in a church, just two days after the carnage at a mall on Saturday that left six persons dead.

 

NSW police confirmed news that a bishop and several members of the congregation were injured after they were stabbed during mass at Christ the Good Shepherd church in a Sydney west area.

 

One person was reportedly in custody and he was assisting with investigations, police said.

 

A video grab of the mass being livestreamed showed a dark-haired man walking up to the bishop during service and stabbing him multiple times as congregants screamed and people ran to save the victim.

 

The attack comes two days after a knifeman went on a rampage, killing six, five of them women, at Sydney's Bondi Junction.

 

Among the dead were Ashlee Good, whose nine-month-old baby had to be rushed to hospital with stab wounds, and Faraz Tahir, 30, a security guard from Pakistan who had recently moved to Australia. “He while defending others”, Al Jazeera reported the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia as saying.