A man opened fire this Sunday, October 5 in a bus has been in Sydney, before being arrested, the Australian police announced, which informed 16 people injured, mainly due to explosions.
The motivations of the 60 -year -old suspect, arrested and hospitalized, remain unknown, excluding in the State a link with organized terrorism or crime.
The facts, rare in a country where using weapons is very strictly controlled, took place in the Central District Inner West West.
“It was panic”
According to the police, the man of sixty -so many years randomly taken from his home, above a business, where he was arrested almost two hours after the first reports.
“It was panic. Everything happened so fast that I did not understand what was happening,” said Joe Azar, an office worker, who worked close when he heard what he thought was at the beginning of the fireworks or the stones thrown against the windows.
“The windshield of a car exploded, then the bus stop window has broken,” The Sydney Morning Herald told the newspaper.
According to a new police evaluation on Monday, 16 people were injured and shot around 50 strokes. The police said on Sunday that 20 people had been injured and almost a hundred bullets drawn.
The author “took out without discernment in vehicles that pass, including police vehicles,” police said.
A rifle was seized during the arrest of the suspect, which was transported to the hospital to be treated by minor injuries around the eyes suffered during his arrest. He was not accused as he is.
Source: BFM TV
