SYDNEY (XINHUA) – A man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed multiple people at a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia yesterday.
Police in the state of Victoria said in a statement that emergency services were called to the Fountain Gate shopping centre in Melbourne’s southeast at about 2.25pm yesterday following reports that three people were attacked at a bus stop.
The victims, two men and a woman, were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Local media reported that they were slashed with a box cutter. Police said that the alleged perpetrator, a 30-year-old local man, fled the scene but was later arrested inside the shopping centre.
One witness posted on social media that the arrested man had blood on his face.
