Westfield Bondi Junction: Major incident at Sydney shopping centre

A major incident is unfolding at a Sydney shopping centre with Australian media reporting four people are dead and multiple others injured.

The incident is taking place at the Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre on Saturday afternoon.

Police say they are responding to a "critical incident" and a male has been shot.

According to local media, eyewitnesses say a man was chasing and stabbing people before he was shot by police.

Footage from the scene shows multiple people on the ground with blood on their clothes. One was receiving CPR.

Other footage posted to social media appears to show a dead body.

A young witness told the Daily Mail Australia she heard gunshots and "blood-curdling" screams.

"We are absolutely terrified," she said.

One man told 9News a baby and its mother were stabbed.

"I just helped out, just holding the baby and trying to compress the blood from stopping and calling ambulance and police," he said.

"There was a lot of blood on the floor."

Dozens of emergency service crews - including the police tactical operations unit - are currently on the scene, with footage showing the public fleeing in panic.

"Something just went down at Westfields Bondi junction," one witness posted to X.

"We were up there and all of a sudden all these people running towards us. Next thing dozens and dozens of people all running a screaming some bloke yells someone is stabbing everyone get out of here'."

Another X user said there were hundreds of shoppers hiding in the back of a department store.

"A police operation is currently underway at Westfield Bondi Junction," Waverley Council said in a tweet.

"The centre is locked down amid reports of multiple stabbings."