Melbourne police have shot dead a man who was carrying out a stabbing attack on a female in the suburb of Gladstone Park, The Guardian reports.
Police were reportedly called to the scene shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon where they discovered a "frenzied attack" being carried out on an older woman. Police fired shots to deter the attacker, a man in his thirties; when he did not desist, they shot him dead.
The woman was seriously injured and has yet to be identified, but police believe the victim was known to the attacker.
Footage of the stabbing on social media reportedly shows a man in traditional Muslim garb complete with a head covering committing the crime.