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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Australia attack: Sixth Sydney stabbings victim named as police say it was 'obvious' women were targeted

The sixth person stabbed to death in Saturday’s attack at a Sydney shopping centre has been named as Chinese student Yixuan Cheng, as Australian police say it is “obvious” the knifeman targeted women in his rampage.

Five of the six people killed by homeless assailant Joel Cauchi during his knife attack in the busy Westfield Bondi Junction mall were women.

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