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00:00 A video on social media shows a man in dress in black approaching a cleric identified as
00:11 the bishop and appearing to step him repeatedly in the head and upper body at the Christ the
00:17 Good Shepherd Church in suburban Wakeley in Shipley, Australia.
00:22 Members of the congregations are seen screaming and rushing to the bishop's aid.
00:29 The New South Wales Ambulance said that they had treated a man in his 50s for multiple
00:34 cuts and taken him to a hospital, while three others were being treated for one or more
00:39 cuts at the scene.
00:42 Hundreds of angry people hurried to the Orthodox Assyrian Church and some clashed with the
00:47 riot police with vehicles damaged.
00:51 The church and local leaders pleaded for calm.
00:57 It's an emotional response from the community obviously when someone in the church is obviously
01:01 injured the way that they have been.
01:03 Thankfully the both people involved are not in life threatening injuries.
01:07 One of the big things was the local community has gone in uproar.
01:11 Given that there has been incidents in Sydney in the last few days with noise involved,
01:15 obviously there's concerns and obviously the community had a response.
01:18 We'd be asked for everyone to think rationally at this stage.
01:22 We've spoken to community leaders and members of the community who are speaking to their
01:25 local people to try and keep people calm.
01:29 The main thing is that again, do not take situations in your own hands.
01:35 Police said the suspect in the stabbings is a 15-year-old boy.
01:39 Australians are still in shock after a lone assailant stabbed six people to death in a
01:45 busy Sydney shopping mall on Saturday and injured more than a dozen others.
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