Police in Australia say they have shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in the western city of Perth, in an attack authorities said had “hallmarks of terrorism”. There were signs the 16-year-old, armed with a kitchen knife, had been “radicalised online”, Western Australia province’s Premier Roger Cook told reporters on Sunday.

Police in Western Australia have shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in Perth, in an attack authorities said indicated terrorism.

The WA police commissioner, Col Blanch, says that while the incident “certainly has all the hallmarks” of a terrorist incident, he will not label it a terrorist incident “at

Police have shot dead a 16-year-old boy who stabbed a member of the public, saying the teenager was "radicalised" online.