Three injured in stabbing attack at Melbourne shopping centre

 

by IANS |

Sydney, Nov 5 (IANS) A man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed multiple people at a shopping centre in Melbourne on Tuesday.


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 2:25 p.m. local time on Tuesday following reports that three people were attacked at a bus stop.


The three victims, two men and a woman, were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Xinhua news agency reported.


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 there was a major police presence at the centre in response to the incident and that the arrested man had blood on his face.

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