A bishop was among several people injured with a knife at a church service in Sydney, Australia, on Monday – just two days after the city was rocked by a mass stabbing in a busy shopping centre.
Video of the incident appears to show a clergyman being attacked during a service at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, in suburban Sydney.
Several others immediately tried to intervene as screams could be heard in the church.
A man was arrested after officers were called to the incident and was removed from the church, New South Wales police said.
Police said none of the injured were at risk of death and that they were treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to hospital.
“Police continue to work to restore order,” the force said in a statement. “A major police response is underway and the public is urged to avoid the area.”
A local official identified the stabbed cleric as Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
As he bled, “he put his hand on the man who stabbed him and said something like, 'May the Lord Jesus Christ save you,'” Charbel Saliba, deputy mayor of Fairfield City, a western suburb of Sydney, told CNN .
The bishop is a well-known figure in the local community, Saliba said.
The incident comes shortly after six people were killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a knife attack at Westfield Bondi Junction, also in Sydney, on Saturday afternoon.
Australian police said on Monday that the attacker in Bondi, 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, may have targeted women.
Five women were among the six people killed by Cauchi. Twelve others were injured, eight of whom remained in hospital Monday in conditions ranging from stable to critical.
Source: CNN Brasil
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