Australian police shoot boy dead after stabbing
STORY: Australian police said on Sunday (May 5) they had shot dead a 16-year-old boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia's capital Perth.
Police said the attack had "hallmarks" of terrorism but was yet to be declared a terrorist act.
Col Blanch is Western Australia's police commissioner:
“We are dealing with complex issues with this 16-year-old male, both mental health issues but also online radicalisation issues. He is known to police, but we believe he very much is acting alone."
The attack occurred late on Saturday night.
State authorities said they had received calls from concerned members of the local Muslim community before the attack.
The victim, stabbed in the back, was stable in hospital, authorities said.
The incident comes after New South Wales police last month charged several boys with terrorism-related offenses in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a live-streamed sermon in Sydney, on April 15.
The attack on the bishop came only days after a stabbing spree killed six in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi.
Gun and knife crime is rare in Australia, which consistently ranks among the safest countries in the world, according to the federal government.
