Bishop who had large following on YouTube and TikTok stabbed in head and body during livestream sermon
Furious crowds surround church in Sydney after 15-year-old boy arrested at scene
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel is stabbed multiple times while live-streaming a mass at a Sydney church as shocked parishioners look on
At least four people were wounded, including a bishop with a global online following, in a knife attack during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney yesterday, police and witnesses said, triggering clashes between angry residents and officers.
Police said they arrested a 15-year-old male at the scene and were forced to hold him at the church in Wakeley, a suburb about 30km west of downtown Sydney, for his own safety after a crowd gathered outside and demanded the attacker be brought out.
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