Hundreds of people streamed out of the Westfield shopping centre following the attack with one saying “I thought I was going to die”, Sky news reported.
Reese Colmenares, an eyewitness who hid in a hardware store with 20 others when people started running out of the mall, said she saw a baby with stab wounds being taken to an ambulance.
“The mother was terrified, the mother was sad, just holding [and] comforting the baby,” she told Reuters.
Two other witnesses said they heard shots fired.
“Even 20 minutes after people were rushed out of the mall, I saw Swat teams of people sweeping the surrounding streets,” one witness said.
The other said they saw a woman lying on the ground and took shelter in a jewellery store.
An eyewitness described the police officer shooting the attacker to state broadcaster ABC.
“If she did not shoot him, he would have kept going, he was on the rampage,” said the man, who did not give his name. “She went over and was giving him CPR. He had a nice big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree.”
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