Young Chinese student among 5 women killed in knife attack at Sydney shopping centre

Five of the six victims killed were women, as well as most of those wounded. The last of Cauchi’s six victims was identified on Monday as Yixuan Cheng, a young Chinese woman who was a student.

“The videos speak for themselves don’t they, and that’s certainly a line of inquiry for us,” New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb said.

“That’s obvious to me, it’s obvious to detectives, that that seems to be an area of interest – that the offender had focused on women and avoided men,” she told national broadcaster ABC.

Webb stressed that police could not know what was in the mind of the attacker. “That’s why it’s important now that detectives spend so much time interviewing those who know him.”

Cauchi’s Facebook profile said he came from Toowoomba, near Brisbane, and had attended a local high school and university.

A distinctive grey, red and yellow dragon tattoo on his right arm was used to help identify him.

The other women killed were a designer, a volunteer surf lifesaver, the daughter of an entrepreneur, and a new mother whose wounded nine-month-old baby is in hospital.

The mother, 38-year-old Ashlee Good, handed her injured baby girl to strangers in desperation before being rushed to hospital where she died of her wounds.

The baby, named Harriet, remains in a stable condition in a Sydney hospital, police said.

Good’s family described her as “a beautiful mother, daughter, sister, partner, friend, all-round outstanding human and so much more”.

“To the two men who held and cared for our baby when Ashlee could not – words cannot express our gratitude”, they said in a statement to Australian media.

The only man killed was 30-year-old Pakistani man Faraz Tahir, who had been working as a security guard when he was stabbed.

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