‘Amazing courage and bravery’ shown by shoppers in Sydney attack 

The knifeman targeted “shoppers peacefully going about their lives” but “their first instinct in the face of danger was to help someone else”, the Australian prime minister has said

People are led out of Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre, where multiple people were stabbed (Rick Rycroft/AP)

Members of the public “showed amazing courage and bravery” during the attack in Sydney that killed six on the first day of the school holidays.

Shoppers provided make-shift medical aid to victims and attempted to stop the attacker as he went on “rampage” through the busy Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre on Saturday afternoon.