A 24-year-old man has been charged attempted murder and other offences following a random stabbing of two female students at the ANU campus on Monday.
Police say that no motive for the stabbing of two female students and the assault of two males has been identified and that they don’t believe the victims knew the offender.
One of the female students is in a serious but stable condition in hospital and the other in a stable condition. The two male victims did not require hospitalisation.
Police allege that at about 2.40pm on Monday the man initially hit a male student on the head with a frying pan.
The man then allegedly stabbed a 20-year-old female student multiple times before chasing a second 20-year-old female student and stabbing her.
The man then allegedly approached a second male student and punched him in the face.
In a message to staff and students Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt says acknowledged the prompt action of the ANU security team and police, “without which this might have been even worse”.
“I know a number of members of our community stopped to render assistance to those injured or stepped in to shepherd people away from danger. We will find an appropriate way to acknowledge this in time, but for now I thank those people on behalf of ANU.”
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