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Sydney mall stabbing: Australian police say knife attacker may have targeted women

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Australian police said on Monday the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre in Sydney's beach suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene.

In the attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction mall on Saturday, five of the six people killed and the majority of the 12 injured were women. The only man who was killed by Joel Cauchi during the attack was a mall security guard. Cauchi was killed by Inspector Amy Scott, who confronted him solo while he was on the rampage.

"Well the videos speak for themselves don't they, and that's certainly a line of inquiry for us, that's obvious to me, it's obvious to detectives that it seems to be an area of interest that the offender had focused on women and avoided men," New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb said.

Police have said Cauchi had mental health issues in the past and there was no indication ideology was a motive. In honour of the victims, the Australian national flag is flying at half-mast across the country, including at the Parliament House and Sydney's Harbour Bridge.

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