Sixth Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing victim named as Chinese student Yixuan Cheng

Detectives pursuing ‘obvious’ line of inquiry – that attacker Joel Cauchi targeted women and avoided men, police commissioner says

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Yixuan Cheng has been confirmed as the sixth person stabbed to death in Bondi Junction on Saturday in what police are now investigating as a murderous rampage possibly targeting women.

The Chinese national, a university student who was in her 20s, was was killed by a Queensland man, Joel Cauchi, at the shopping centre on Saturday afternoon alongside five others.

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