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Melbourne Knife Attacker Inspired by Islamic State: Police

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10 November 2018 10:28 WIB

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TEMPO.CO, Melbourne - A Somali-born man set fire to a truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of Melbourne and fatally stabbed one person. The Australian police said Thursday he was inspired by Islamic State but did not have direct links with the group, Australian police said on Saturday.


Police identified the man responsible for Friday's attack as 30-year-old Hassan Khalif Shire Ali and said he was radicalized and inspired by the militant group's propaganda. He was shot by police and died in hospital.

Police said Shire Ali's Australian passport was cancelled in 2015 after an intelligence report he planned to travel to Syria, but an assessment was made that while he had radical views, he posed no threat to national security.

Islamic State had claimed responsibility for the attack, which came two days before Remembrance Day, marking 100 years since the end of World War One, without providing any evidence.

"I think it is fair to say he (Shire Ali) was inspired. He was radicalized," Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney told reporters in Melbourne.

"We're not saying there was direct contact. We're saying it was more from an inspiration perspective."

Friday's attack began just before the evening rush hour and lasted only minutes. Shire Ali stabbed bystanders and attacked police while his utility truck carrying barbecue gas cylinders burned on busy Bourke Street.

The cylinders did not explode and the fire was put out in 10 minutes, by which point the attack was over, though not before one man was fatally stabbed.

Police said he was a 74-year-old man who worked in the city, but did not release his name. Local media identified him as a restaurant owner.

Video posted to Twitter and broadcast on television showed Shire Ali swinging a knife at two police officers, while the truck burned in the background, before he collapsed when one shot him in the chest.

Victoria state police said counter-terrorism investigators were searching two properties in suburban Melbourne in connection with the attack, but there was no immediate word on what the searches yielded.

At one, a modest one-storey brick house on the city's western fringe, armed officers wearing masks stood guard outside.

Bourke Street also reopened on Saturday morning, and a Reuters reporter said there was an increased police presence in the area.

REUTERS



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