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Sydney, Australia — Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal knife attack during a live-streamed church service was a religiously motivated “terrorist” act, as they urged calm from the angered local community.
Two people were stabbed when a 16-year-old suspect rushed the dais at an Assyrian Christian church in western Sydney late Monday, slashing wildly at the bishop who was giving a sermon.
The bishop was stabbed in the head and chest and taken to hospital.
The attacker was immediately subdued by outraged congregants and later taken into police custody.
