Vigil held for victims of Sydney mall attack

Members of the public look at flowers placed outside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall in Sydney on April 14. - PHOTO: AFP

SYDNEY (AFP): A small evening vigil was held Sunday for the six people killed in a knife attack at a busy Sydney shopping centre, which police said was carried out by a local man with a history of mental illness.

Mourners gathered in silent reflection outside the Westfield mall in Bondi Junction, which had been packed with weekend shoppers when 40-year-old itinerant Joel Cauchi went on a stabbing rampage on Saturday.