Boy, 16, who stabbed and seriously injured man in Perth is shot dead by police

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed and injured a man in the Australian city of Perth.

The teenager stabbed the man in his 30s in the back, in the car park ofahardwarestore,thenrushedat police officers.

Two officers used Tasers but they failed to incapacitate the boy before he was killed by a single gunshot.

Western Australian premier Roger Cook said: “There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage it appears that he acted solely and alone.”

The victim is in a serious but stable condition.

Police received an emergency phone call atabout 10pm on Saturday from a teenager saying he was going to commit acts of violence, Western Australian police commissioner Col Blanch said. The boy had been participating in a programme at risk of radicalisation, he added.

He said members of the local Muslim community had raised concerns with police about the boy’s behavior before he was killed on Saturday.

The Imam of Perth’s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, condemned the stabbing. “There is no place for violence in Islam,” Imam Syed Wadood Janud said.

Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) agents have been conducting a counterterrorism investigation in Sydney since another 16-year-old boy stabbed an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest in a church on

April 15. That boy has been charged with committing a terrorist act. Six of his alleged associates have also been charged with a range of offences, including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. All remain in custody.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “We are a peace-loving nation and there is no place for violent extremism in Australia,”