A radicalized 16-year-old was killed by Australian police after injuring a person with a knife in Western Australia . The prime minister of the state and the police made this known.
The teenager, armed with a knife, "rushed" towards the police and was shot to death by an officer , Prime Minister Roger Cook told journalists, adding that according to initial information the boy had become radicalized online .
The injured man is in "serious but stable" condition. The attack occurred in a Perth suburb in the early hours of Sunday. Police had received a call on Saturday evening from a man warning that he would commit "acts of violence" , but without giving his name or location.
A few minutes later an emergency call came in warning them that "a man with a knife was running" in a car park in Willetton, a southern suburb of the city. The teenager, still armed with a knife, "rushed" towards the police and was fatally shot by an officer.
«There are indications that he has become radicalized online . But I want to reassure people that at this stage it appears he acted alone,” Western Australia State Premier Roger Cook said at a news conference.
According to images taken from a police camera, the teenager refused to put the knife on the ground as requested by the officers, who then fired two electric pulse guns but "neither of them had the desired effect". ». So the young man "continued to advance towards an armed officer who fired a single shot and fatally wounded him".
In recent years, according to what has been learned, the teenager was part of a program against violence and extremism .
(Unioneonline/L)
