Westfield Bondi Junction’s stabbing hero tells how he desperately tried to save injured baby’s life after infant and mother attacked

A ‘hero’ who rushed to the aid of a mother and nine-month-old baby after they were stabbed by a knifeman at Westfield Bondi Junction has told how he worked desperately to keep the infant alive.

A major incident unfolded at the major shopping center in Sydney’s eastern suburbs around 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon after a knifeman went on a rampage and stabbed several people, killing at least four.

Witnesses said the dark-haired man, wearing a Kangaroos NRL top, slashed and chased shoppers before he was shot by a female police officer.

It is understood the baby is undergoing surgery and the mother is in a critical condition in hospital.

A witness interrupted a Nine News reporter doing a live cross in Bondi Junction and pointed to her brother and said: ‘He’s a hero – he saved the baby’.

The clearly shaken hero said: ‘The baby was stabbed and yes, the mother was stabbed.

‘The mother came over with the child and threw it at me. I just helped by holding the baby … and trying to compress the baby.’

He stood with the mother, tried to compress the blood using clothes from a store and called the emergency services.

“(It was) very bad… a lot of blood on the floor… hope the baby is okay,” said the other brother.

The mother had blood coming from her mouth, he said.

Another witness, a mall worker, recalled seeing a mother screaming on the level above.

“I see a mother and maybe her partner with a baby in a pram,” she told Nine News.

‘She screams really, really loud. She runs back and forth not knowing what to do.

“Then she comes back to the pram and picks up her baby, and there’s just blood all over her back.

‘The scream was unforgettable, it was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.

‘My colleague took me, we locked all the doors, had to turn off all the lights and doors’.