🚨 Police confirm 5 have been killed and several, including a 'small child' are in critical condition after a mass stabbing incident in Sydney. Officers say the attacker was confronted by a lone female officer at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. pic.twitter.com/XmnQVc6jrq

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Six people are dead after a stabbing spree in Australia on Saturday afternoon, including the suspect who was shot to death by a police officer, authorities confirmed.

The incident took place at Westfield Bondi Junction, a six-level shopping center in Sydney.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb confirmed at a news conference that four women and one man were killed in the shopping center, and subsequently another woman died at a hospital. Eight others were hospitalized and are being treated for different injuries associated with the attack.

A nine-month-old infant was among those injured and has been in surgery, Webb said.