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‘Incredible’ mom died trying to save nine-month-old baby from Sydney serial stabber: report

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A dying mother who thrust her injured baby into the arms of two strangers and begged them to save the child’s life is the first victim of the Sydney stabbing spree to be identified. 

Australian media reports say 38-year-old Ash Good died in a hospital on Saturday evening from stab wounds sustained at Westfield Bondi Junction, a six-level shopping center in Sydney. 

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Her 9-month-old baby, Harriet, was also wounded when a 40-year-old male suspect armed with a knife attacked several people at the mall at around 3:20 p.m. local time. 

Six people were killed in the unprovoked attack, and eight were hospitalized with injuries, including the baby. The assailant was fatally shot by a hero cop who was first to respond to the scene, authorities said. 

Good succumbed to her injuries after being transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital in critical condition, NCA Newswire reported. 

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Two witnesses who spoke to 9News said she handed them her baby and begged them to help her before they were taken to an ambulance.

«The baby got stabbed,» the witness said. 

The witness and his brother said they helped to compress the mom and baby’s wounds before they were taken to paramedics. 

«The mom got stabbed, and the mom came over with the baby and threw it at me and [I] was holding the baby,» he told the local station.

The witness described their injuries as «very bad» and said «there was a lot of blood on the floor.»
 

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Authorities said the stabbing incident happened in Westfield Bondi Junction, a shopping center in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.  (Fox News)

Reese Colmenares was among 20 others who hid in a hardware store when people started running out of the mall, including the mother and her baby. 

«The mother was terrified, the mother was sad, just holding (and) comforting the baby,» she told Reuters.

Sky News anchor Laura Jayes revealed live on-air that she had known the mother, though she did not identify the victim by name.

In an emotional report, Jayes said Good was a «mother in the prime of her life.» 

«She has a beautiful circle of friends. She’s a beautiful woman. She was an incredible athlete. And she had the world at her feet. She got married in recent years,» Jayes said.

«Her family are on their way — rushing here now. So many family and friends wanted to be at the hospital this afternoon, they had to take turns going in and out of the waiting room.»

«Her baby went into surgery, and her mum didn’t make it. That is really hard news to take,» Jayes said. 

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Police enter the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on April 13, 2024. Australian police on April 13 said they had received reports that «multiple people» had been stabbed at a busy shopping center in Sydney. (DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Fighting through tears to deliver her report, Jayes described the mother’s brave final moments.

«If you have a new baby like that, a nine-month-old, you are still well and truly in the newborn phase. You are with that baby all the time,» she said.

«And for her, I can’t imagine her needing to hand over the most precious thing in her life.»

Though she did not identify the mother out of respect for the family’s privacy, Jayes said the victim was an «incredible» person. 

«As I say, she’s one of those all-rounders. She was an incredible athlete, so smart, so beautiful, and she was just so excited to be a new mother,» she said.

«And all of that was ripped away in seconds, here, this afternoon.»

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New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb told reporters Saturday that the fatal stabbings are under investigation. The suspect was known to police, but investigators are waiting to confirm his identity before revealing it to the public. 

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Webb added that police do not believe he was «holding an ideation — in other words, that it’s not a terrorism incident.» 

«Let me assure you that we are confident that there is no ongoing risk, and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased,» Webb said during a news conference. 

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US briefed Ukraine ahead of Putin’s ‘experimental Intermediate-range ballistic’ attack

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A U.S. official on Thursday confirmed to Fox News Digital that Ukrainian authorities were briefed ahead of Russia’s «experimental Intermediate-range ballistic missile» attack that this type of weapon may be used against Ukraine in order to help it prepare.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the attack Thursday evening local time in an address to the nation and said it was in direct response to the U.S. and the U.K. jointly approving Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range missiles to target Russia.

It remains unclear if there were any casualties in the attack on the city of Dnipro, which was originally reported as an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) strike, and which would have marked the first time such a weapon had been used during a time of war, sending panic across the globe. 

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Putin and U.S. sources have since confirmed the strike was not an ICBM, but the Kremlin chief also claimed that the weapon used poses a significant challenge for Western nations. 

«The missiles attack targets at a speed of MACH 10. That’s 2.5 miles per second,» Putin said according to a translation. «The world’s current air defense systems and the missile defense systems developed by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles.»

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Fox News Digital could not immediately verify whether the U.S. or its NATO allies are capable of defending against this latest missile, dubbed the Oreshnik. 

But according to one U.S. official, Putin may be playing up his abilities in a move to intimidate the West and Ukraine. 

A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired in northwestern Russia on Oct. 29. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

«While we take all threats against Ukraine seriously, it is important to keep a few key facts in mind: Russia likely possesses only a handful of these experimental missiles,» the official told Fox News Digital. «Ukraine has withstood countless attacks from Russia, including from missiles with significantly larger warheads than this weapon.

«Let me be clear: Russia may be seeking to use this capability to try to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters, or generate attention in the information space, but it will not be a game-changer in this conflict,» the official added. 

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Following President Biden’s position reversal this week to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) against the Russian homeland, Kyiv immediately levied strikes against a military arsenal in the Russian region of Bryansk, more than 70 miles from Ukraine’s border. 

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While Ukrainian troops are the ones to officially fire the sophisticated missiles, the weapons system still relies on U.S. satellites to hit its target — an issue Putin touched on in his unannounced speech Thursday. 

«We are testing the Oreshnik missile systems in combat conditions in response to NATO countries’ aggressive actions against Russia. We will decide on the further deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles depending on the actions of the U.S. and its satellites,» he said.

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Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Thursday. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region/Handout via Reuters)

Putin claimed Russia will alert Ukrainian citizens of an impending attack like the strike he carried out on Thursday, though it remains unclear if he issued a warning to the Ukrainians living in Dnipro. 

The Kremlin chief said the «defense industry» was targeted, though images released by the Ukrainian ministry of defense showed what appeared to be civilian infrastructure was also caught in the fray. 

The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed that Russia informed the U.S. of the impending attack, which corresponds with information obtained by Fox News Digital, but it is unclear if Moscow clarified which Ukrainian city was the intended target.

A U.S. official told Fox News Digital that the U.S. is committed to helping Ukraine bolster its air defense systems and has done so already by supplying Ukraine with hundreds of additional Patriot and Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles. 

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