JAKARTA – Australian police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for assaulting students at the University of Sydney.
Emergency crews treated a 22-year-old man, who was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition, New South Wales state police said.
NSW Police Counter Terrorism Assistant Commissioner Mark Walton said the motive for the perpetrators’ children was not yet known. But he expressed concern that there was growing evidence of young people being radicalised online.
“They are adhering to the extremist ideology of violence and are moving towards violence,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters on Tuesday, July 2.
The alleged attacker boarded a bus after the incident and was arrested near a hospital, police said. There is no ongoing risk to the community, and the victim and the suspected attacker were not known to each other.
A University of Sydney spokesperson said a police operation was underway at the Camperdown campus and police would remain on campus while investigations continued.
The attack came about two months after six people were killed and 12 injured in a stabbing attack at a shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi area, and an Asyrian church bishop was injured in an unrelated blasphemy attack during a pilgrimage west of Sydney.
A 16-year-old boy is accused of committing acts of terrorism against a bishop, while the attacker at the shopping mall was shot dead by police.
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