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.
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Location | Outside Endeavour Hills police station |
Coordinates | 37°58′33″S 145°15′43″E |
Date | 23 September 2014 7:45 p.m. (AEST, UTC+10:00) |
Target | Australian counter-terrorism police officers |
Attack type | Stabbing attack |
Weapons | Two knives |
Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrators | Abdul Numan Haider |
Motive | Sunni Islamic fundamentalism |
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