‘He’s got a knife’

A brave bystander helped a wounded woman who had been stabbed in her right hip as terror unfolded at the Lynn Mall in West Auckland.

The witness wrapped the injured woman’s jumper around her and still had blood on her when she spoke to the

The witness said the woman ran out of the mall as other shoppers were screaming “he’s got a knife”.

As people scrambled to evacuate, others yelled out and the injured woman got up and fled the scene.

The witness says the adrenaline was still pumping after the horrific attack.

The person was one of the many people who witnessed the attack inside Lynn Mall yesterday afternoon.

A man, who didn’t wish to be named, filmed an injured woman being taken off a bus at New Lynn train station.

In the video, the woman appears to be bleeding from an injury near her left shoulder.

The man, who lives in an apartment overlooking the station, said more than seven police cars rushed to the scene just before 3pm.

They blocked both ends of the road near the station as three ambulances also arrived.

Police got onto the bus first, before paramedics joined them.

Shortly after they can be seen in the video carrying the woman off the bus. She is still conscious as they place her on a stretcher.

A 34-year-old man who witnessed the beginning of the attack had been in the store for about 10 minutes and was in the dairy section in one corner of the supermarket.

“It literally happened in front of me. I was just buying stuff and walking toward the milk aisle, and then suddenly I heard a person shouting loudly ‘Allah hu Akbar’ and just running.

“So there was this lady in front of me and he jumped on her so she fell, so that person [the attacker] also sort of lost his balance. He also fell. Then he got up. But I was behind so I couldn’t see his face but this person was wearing like a khaki jacket and he had a knife, a pretty big knife — like I would say the size of his arm. It was very scary. It was like a mini sword, not like a full sword. It was like a sword, literally.”