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NSW police charge man for alleged stabbing attack at Bondi Beach on Friday

NSW police have charged a man for an alleged separate stabbing attack on a woman in Bondi Beach just one day before the Westfield mass murder horror.

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NSW Police have revealed there was an alleged stabbing attack on a woman in Bondi Beach just one day before the Westfield mass murder horror.

The police said on Sunday they had arrested and charged a 43-year-old-man with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm following the alleged attack on Roscoe Street in Bondi Beach on Friday.

The attack, which took place just before 11am, put a 36-year-old woman in hospital.

Paramedics treated the woman for head injuries and took her to hospital in a stable condition.

Police have charged a man over a separate alleged stabbing attack in Bondi that occurred just one day before another man killed six people with a knife at Westfield Bondi Junction. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard
Police have charged a man over a separate alleged stabbing attack in Bondi that occurred just one day before another man killed six people with a knife at Westfield Bondi Junction. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

“A crime scene was established and officers attached to Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident,” the police said.

“Following inquiries, a 43-year-old man was arrested at Riverwood about 1.20pm the same day.

“He was taken to Campsie Police Station and charged.”

The alleged knife violence came just one day before Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, rampaged through the Westfied shopping centre in Bondi, murdering six people. He was fatally shot by police.

NCA NewsWire does not suggest the two incidents are related.

Duncan Evans
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Duncan Evans is a reporter for News Corp’s NewsWire service, based in Adelaide. Before NewsWire, he worked as a resources and politics reporter for The Daily Mercury in Mackay, Queensland and as a reporter at CQ Today, an independent newspaper based in Rockhampton. He was raised in Emerald and Brisbane and studied English Literature and American Studies at the University of Sydney. He began his career in journalism working for the Jakarta Post in Indonesia for over two years as an editor, translator and writer. He is fluent in Indonesian.

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