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Citizen 'heroes' stop deadly Australian knife rampage

Police investigate the area where a man went on a stabbing rampage in Sydney.

A knife-wielding man killed one person and attempted to stab several others in a central Sydney rampage Tuesday before being chased and pinned down by members of the public, witnesses told AFP.

Police said a 21-year-old Sydney man with a history of mental illness is believed to have killed a woman of around the same age in a residential unit before going on the rampage across the city centre.

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