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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose NSW state correspondent

Police officer who shot Bondi Junction attacker wielding a ‘massive’ knife hailed as a hero

Police Anthony Albanese Bondi Junction Karen Webb
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Reece Kershaw
Anthony Albanese and the Australian federal police commissioner, Reece Kershaw, speak to the media about the Bondi Junction stabbings on Saturday evening. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A New South Wales police inspector has been hailed as a hero after she shot dead a man who stabbed six people to death in a shopping centre in Bondi Junction.

The senior officer, Amy Scott, was conducting routine duties nearby when she was directed to head to Westfield shopping centre following reports a man was using a “massive” knife to stab shoppers.

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