'It was insanity' – Eyewitnesses tell of Sydney stabbings horror
By Tiffanie Turnbull & Katy Watson, in Bondi, & Doug Faulkner in London
Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos as they fled a busy Sydney shopping mall where a knifeman killed six people and wounded several others.
“It was insanity,” one visibly upset woman said, as she described seeing a wounded woman lying on the floor.
Crowds poured from Westfield shopping centre in Bondi as the terrifying incident began just after 3pm.
One eyewitness was near in a cafe with his two small children when he saw a man “stabbing people indiscriminately”.
“It was carnage,” the witness, who did not want to be named told ABC News Australia.
Warning: This story contains descriptions and images which some people may find upsetting.
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Police say the knifeman had visited the mall at 15:10 local time before returning minutes later to begin his rampage.
