A barricade Road at the shopping center where the incident occured. Photo: ABC News: Jack Fisher
One of the six people that were killed during a 40-year-old man knife attack through a Sydney shopping center last weekend has been named as a Yixuan Cheng, Chinese woman studying in Australia, the prime minister said Monday.
Yixuan Cheng, the last of the victims to be identified from Saturday's attack, "has lost her life," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a radio interview.
Meanwhile Australian police said the attacker may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene.
In the attack on Saturday, five of the six people killed and the majority of the 12 injured were women. Police said on Monday they had finished taking physical evidence at the Westfield Bondi Junction mall.
"It's obvious to me, it's obvious to detectives that seems to be an area of interest that the offender focused on women and avoided the men," New South Wales state Police Commissioner Karen Webb told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"The videos speak for themselves, don't they? That's certainly a line for inquiry for us."
Witnesses described how attacker Joel Cauchi, 40, wearing shorts and an Australian national rugby league jersey, ran through the mall with a knife. He was killed by Inspector Amy Scott, who confronted him solo while he was on the rampage.
Police have said Cauchi had mental health issues in the past and there was no indication ideology was a motive.
Violent crimes such as Saturday's stabbing are rare in the country of about 27 million people, which has some of the world's toughest gun and knife laws.
Source: AFP/Reuters
據報道，悉尼購物中心持刀攻擊事件的第六名受害者是一名25歲的中國女學生
總理週一表示，上週末悉尼一家購物中心發生一起 40 歲男子持刀襲擊事件，造成 6 人死亡，其中一名在澳大利亞留學的中國女子程藝軒 (Yixuan Cheng) 被殺。
總理安東尼·阿爾巴內塞在接受電台採訪時表示，週六襲擊事件中最後一名被確認身份的受害者程逸軒「已經喪生」。
同時，澳洲警方表示，攻擊者可能以女性為目標，全國哀悼罹難者，數百人在現場附近獻花。
在周六的襲擊中，六人死亡中有五人，受傷的 12 人中大部分是女性。 警方週一表示，他們已完成在 Westfield Bondi Junction 購物中心採集物證。
新南威爾斯警察局長凱倫韋伯（Karen Webb）告訴澳洲廣播公司：「對我來說，很明顯，對偵探來說，很明顯，罪犯專注於女性，避開男性，這似乎是一個感興趣的領域。
“這些視頻不言而喻，不是嗎？這對我們來說無疑是一條詢問線。”
目擊者描述了 40 歲的襲擊者喬爾·考奇 (Joel Cauchi) 穿著短褲和澳大利亞國家橄欖球聯盟球衣如何持刀穿過購物中心。 他被艾米·斯科特督察殺死，艾米·斯科特督察在他橫衝直撞時獨自面對他。
警方表示，考奇過去曾有心理健康問題，沒有跡象顯示意識形態是他的動機。
在這個擁有約 2700 萬人口的國家，諸如週六刺傷等暴力犯罪很少見，該國擁有世界上最嚴厲的槍支和刀具法律。 （法新社/路透）
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