Members of the public “showed amazing courage and bravery” during the attack in Sydney that killed six on the first day of the school holidays.
Two brothers said they tried to aid an injured mother and child using shirts from the shop they were sheltering in to stop the bleeding. He added his brother “helped with holding the baby, and trying to compress the baby, and same with the mother – trying to compress the blood from stopping, and call the ambulance and the police.”
He said people tried to stop the bleeding using clothes: “The baby only had a minor wound, but the lady was pretty bad – there was a lot of blood and she was panicking.” He said: “I saw this one guy fighting with the killer. He was holding the pole, trying to throw a pole at the escalator.An ambulance leaves the scene
People were still sheltered in the salon hours after the attack because their cars were parked in the shopping centre, she added.