Australian police said a knife attack during a church service in Sydney, which left at least four people injured, including a bishop with a global online following, would be considered a terrorist attack.
On Monday, police arrested a boy at the site of the attack, which occurred in a church in the suburb of Wakley, about 30 kilometers west of downtown Sydney.
Earlier Monday, media outlets, including Reuters, published a new video of the moment of an attempt to control the teenager who stabbed a priest in a church west of Sydney, where he heard screaming in Arabic.
On Monday, police and witnesses said that at least four people, including a bishop and a priest, were injured in a stabbing incident in a church in a suburb of Sydney.
Australian police confirmed the arrest of a 15-year-old person who approached the altar of an Assyrian church and began stabbing Bishop Mar Mary Emmanuel, which sparked panic among the worshipers who began screaming.
Amid the chaos, a number of worshipers rushed to take cover while others tried to control the attacker during the incident that occurred at the Church of the Good Shepherd in the Weakley suburb, west of Sydney.
A small group of Assyrian Christians live in this neighborhood, a large number of whom fled persecution and war in Iraq and Syria, according to Agence France-Presse.
A video clip circulated on social media and published by Reuters showed worshipers trying to stabilize the attacker, appearing as if they were speaking to him in Arabic.
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