Speaking in a news conference in Canberra, Anthony Albanese said the attack, which led to the deaths of Five people and a suspect in the stabbings, was "a horrific act of violence" which "indiscriminately targeted innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday, doing their shopping". A single person began stabbing people in the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, a suburb of Sydney, attacking nine people, before a police inspector shot him. Five people died.