‘Radicalized’ teen stabs person in Australia

Australian police have shot dead a 16-year-old suspect who stabbed a member of the public at a car park in Perth on Saturday and then rushed towards the officers.

“There are indications he had been radicalized online,” Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said at a news conference on Sunday. He added that “it appears he acted solely and alone.”

The stabbing took place at around 10 am local time at the Bunnings carpark in Willetton, a southern suburb of Perth.

Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch told reporters that the officers had received a call warning that an unspecified “act of violence” was about to be committed. Shortly after, police received another call, alerting that a “male with a knife was running around the car park.”

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