2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings

On 23 September 2014, 18-year-old Abdul Numan Haider attacked two counter-terrorism police officers with a knife outside the Victoria Police Endeavour Hills police station located in Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was then shot dead.

2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings
Haider's Facebook profile picture four days before the stabbings
LocationOutside Endeavour Hills police station
Coordinates37°58′33″S 145°15′43″E
Date23 September 2014 (2014-09-23)
7:45 p.m. (AEST, UTC+10:00)
TargetAustralian counter-terrorism police officers
Attack type
Stabbing attack
WeaponsTwo knives
Deaths1 (the perpetrator)
Injured2
PerpetratorsAbdul Numan Haider
MotiveSunni Islamic fundamentalism
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