Australian police shoot boy dead after stabbing with ‘hallmarks’ of terrorism

Australian police said on Sunday they shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia’s capital Perth, in an attack authorities said indicated terrorism.
There were signs the 16-year-old, armed with a kitchen knife, had been radicalised online, state authorities said, adding they received calls from concerned members of the local Muslim community before the attack, which occurred late on Saturday night.
Police said, the attack, in the suburb of Willetton, had “hallmarks” of terrorism but was yet to be declared a terrorist act.
“At this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone,” Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said in a televised news conference in Perth, regarding the attacker.
Authorities said, the victim, stabbed in the back, was stable in hospital.
The incident comes after New South Wales police last month charged several boys with terrorism-related offences in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a live-streamed sermon in Sydney, on April 15.