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Police treating deadly Bourke Street stabbing as terrorist attack

Authorities have confirmed the identity of the attacker who fatally stabbed one person and injured two others in Melbourne on Friday afternoon. Police allege the Somalian-born man had been planning to use gas cylinders to cause an explosion.

Two images of the incident at Bourke Street Mall (Twitter)
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By Sunita Pokharel



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Federal and Victoria security agencies have mounted a terrorism investigation following an attack on Bourke Street in Melbourne's C-B-D.

The offender has been identified as Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, a 30-year old Somalian-born man.

After 4 pm on Friday afternoon Shire Ali set a car alight by igniting gas cylinders, then stabbed three men before he was shot by police in the chest.

 The assailant died in hospital.

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