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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Andrew BEATTY

Sydney Church Stabbing Called 'Terrorist' Act, Teen Detained

Police gather outside the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's western suburb of Wakeley on Monday night (Credit: AFP)

Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal live-streamed knife attack at a church service in Sydney was a religiously motivated "terrorist" act, as they urged calm from the angered local community.

Two people were stabbed when a 16-year-old suspect rushed the dais at an Assyrian church in western Sydney late Monday, slashing wildly at the bishop who was giving a sermon.

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