Somali 'terrorist' knifeman screaming 'Allahu akbar' stabs three shoppers - leaving two dead - before being shot dead by cops after mounting pavement in car laden with gas cylinders in Melbourne

However, according to the Herald Sun, he was known to the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation, the country's domestic spy agency.

Police said he had no known links to terrorism, but were keeping an open mind.

officers then retreated to the other side of the road as the bearded attacker with a shaved head and dressed in a long brown tunic, pursued them as horrified bystanders called on police to #shoot him

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The hero of Bourke Street: Brave man charges at terrorist with a shopping trolley as the attacker tried to stab police officers before being shot dead