Multiple People Stabbed at Church Service in Sydney, Australia

Published: 15 April 2024 at 14:11

Crime

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was attacked during a service at the Christ the Good Shepherd church in Sydney, resulting in four people being injured with some taken to hospital in serious condition. A man has been arrested by New South Wales Police following the stabbing incident. This comes after a similar attack at a shopping center where six people were killed, with the perpetrator shot dead by an officer.

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2024 Wakeley stabbing (Wikipedia)

On 15 April 2024, in Wakeley, a western suburb of Sydney, Australia, an assailant entered the Christ The Good Shepherd Assyrian church and stabbed six people, including bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. It was the second mass stabbing in the city in three days, following the 2024 Bondi Junction stabbings.

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Mar Mari Emmanuel (Wikipedia)

Mar Mari Emmanuel (born Robert Shlimon) is a Christian cleric who is currently the bishop of Christ the Good Shephard Church in Wakeley, New South Wales, Australia. In 2011, he was ordained a bishop in the Ancient Church of the East, but in 2015, he established an independent church in the Eastern Syriac tradition.

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Senior female police officer hailed as hero for confronting and shooting knifeman in Sydney

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