Counter-terrorism police are investigating after a 14-year-old boy was wearing camouflage when he allegedly stabbed a pupil on the College of Sydney.
Police and paramedics had been referred to as to the Camperdown campus at Parramatta Street about 8.35am as we speak.
First responders arrived and located a 22-year-old stabbed within the neck, earlier than taking him to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a severe however steady situation.
Counter terrorism command assistant commissioner Mark Walton stated a 14-year-old boy from the Interior West was arrested after he caught a bus and attended the identical hospital for therapy for minor cuts to his hand.
He stated the boy is presently present process a psychological well being evaluation and there’s no additional threat to the group.
“There was a youngster who fled the scene wearing camouflage defence pressure uniform and a knife was recovered on the scene,” he stated at a press convention this afternoon.
“The New South Wales Joint Counter-Terrorism Committee are investigating.
“A motive or ideology, importantly, has not been decided at the moment.”
Walton, nevertheless, stated it doesn’t seem that the boy was religiously motivated.
Whereas the boy is believed to not be identified to the 22-year-old sufferer, he’s identified to police and authorities companies.
Walton urged mother and father and the group to pay attention to the dangers of younger individuals being radicalised on-line.
“Everybody needs to be involved about this,” he stated.
“There’s a threat of on-line radicalisation. The web is poisonous and it’s extremely straightforward for younger individuals particularly to self radicalise and transfer in direction of violence.”
The College of Sydney earlier stated they had been conscious of an incident at their campus and there will likely be elevated safety and police presence within the space.
“The protection and wellbeing of our college students, employees and members of the group is our precedence, and we proceed to work with authorities,” a spokesperson stated.
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