MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in suburban Willetton on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The teen attacked the man and then rushed at police officers before he was shot, Western Australian Premier Roger Cook told reporters Sunday.<\/p>\n
“There are indications he had been radicalized online,” Cook told a news conference.<\/p>\n
“But I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone,” Cook added.<\/p>\n
A man was found at the scene with stab wounds to his back. He was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.<\/p>\n
Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organization agents have been conducting a counterterrorism investigation in the east coast city of Sydney since another 16-year-old boy stabbed an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest in a church on April 15.<\/p>\n
That boy has been charged with committing a terrorist act. Six of his alleged associates have also been charged with a range of offenses, including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. All remain in custody.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had been briefed on the latest stabbing in Perth by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess, who heads the nation’s main domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n
“I’m advised there is no ongoing threat to the community on the information available,” Albanese said.<\/p>\n
“We are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia,” he added.<\/p>\n
Police received an emergency phone call after 10 p.m. from a teenager saying he was going to commit acts of violence, Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch said.<\/p>\n
The boy had been participating in a program for young people at risk of radicalization, Blanch added.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to say he has been radicalized or is radicalized because I think that forms part of the investigation,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police said they were later alerted by a phone call from a member of the public that a knife attack was underway in the parking lot. Three police officers responded, one armed with a gun and two with conducted energy devices.<\/p>\n
Police deployed both conducted energy devices but they failed to incapacitate the boy before he was killed by a single gunshot, Blanch said.<\/p>\n
Some Muslim leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring last month’s church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a Sydney shopping mall in which six people were killed and a dozen wounded. The 40-year-old attacker in the mall attack was shot dead by police. Police have yet to reveal the man’s motive.<\/p>\n
The church attack is only the third to be classified by Australian authorities as a terrorist act since 2018.<\/p>\n
In December 2022, three Christian fundamentalists shot dead two police officers and a bystander in an ambush near the community of Wieambilla in Queensland state. The shooters were later killed by police.<\/p>\n
In November 2018, a Somalia-born Muslim stabbed three pedestrians in downtown Melbourne, killing one, before police shot him dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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