Melbourne attack: Man shot dead after fire and fatal stabbing
Tehran (KNA) - A man who set a car on fire and stabbed three people - one fatally - in the Australian city of Melbourne has died in hospital after being shot by police.
Authorities now say they are treating the attack as a terror-related.
The attacker was shot after confronting officers on a busy city street, authorities said. He was taken into custody in a critical condition.
The two survivors are in hospital, one reportedly in a critical condition. The suspect has not been named.
Police said they were "not looking for anyone further at this early stage".
"We don't believe there is an ongoing threat at this stage, but certainly we are treating it as a terrorism incident," said Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton.
He said the suspect was "someone that is known" to both local police and federal intelligence, adding it was "mainly in respect to relatives" who are "certainly persons of interest to us".
Officers say the man was of Somali origin and had been travelling in a vehicle packed with "barbecue-style" gas cylinders which caught fire.
Source: BBC