Sydney knife attack: Australian woman stabbed by unidentified man in broad daylight; accused taken into custody

Sydney: A woman was taken to hospital after she was stabbed in downtown Sydney in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack by a man who has been taken into custody, police said. [caption id=“attachment_7155901” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] A woman is taken by ambulance, as police officers investigate a scene following reports of a stabbing in Sydney. Reuters[/caption] According to police officials, the unidentified man had also tried, unsuccessfully, to stab other people in an incident that brought the central business district in Australia’s largest city to a standstill in the early afternoon. “We have a female person with a stab wound to the back currently being treated by paramedics and is en route to a Sydney hospital,” Police Superintendent Gavin Wood told reporters in Sydney. He said the woman’s injuries were not life-threatening. Wood also said the attack appeared to be unprovoked but, police were keeping an open mind. The video footage that went viral on Twitter showed a young man running across a city intersection and jumping onto the hood of a car, waving what appeared to be a knife. The video also showed the man falling to the ground when the car moved ahead and was confronted by a person holding a chair. Another footage showed the man pinned to the ground by several people holding two chairs and a milk crate on top of him.

A woman who answered the phone at a Subway store near the scene told Reuters: “We saw the person with a knife over there bleeding.” “The cops are here and they blocked the road right now, so we can’t go outside. They said that it was a crime scene and stopped us from us going out,” said the woman, who declined to disclose her identity. Police said the man was acting alone.