Chinese woman, 25, named as sixth Sydney attack victim
A Chinese woman studying in Australia was one of six people killed when a 40-year-old knifeman rampaged through a Sydney shopping centre at the weekend, the prime minister said Monday. Yixuan Cheng, the last of the victims to be identified from Saturday's attack, "has lost her life," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a radio interview. Meanwhile Australian police said the attacker may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene. In the attack on Saturday, five of the six people killed and the majority of the 12 injured were women. Police said on Monday they had finished taking physical evidence at the Westfield Bondi Junction mall. "It's obvious to me, it's obvious to detectives that seems to be an area of interest that the offender focused on women and avoided the men," New South Wales state Police Commissioner Karen Webb told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "The videos speak for themselves, don't they? That's certainly a line for inquiry for us." Witnesses described how attacker Joel Cauchi, 40, wearing shorts and an Australian national rugby league jersey, ran through the mall with a knife. He was killed by Inspector Amy Scott, who confronted him solo while he was on the rampage. Police have said Cauchi had mental health issues in the past and there was no indication ideology was a motive. Violent crimes such as Saturday's stabbing are rare in the country of about 27 million people, which has some of the world's toughest gun and knife laws. (AFP/Reuters)