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Melbourne mall deaths: woman becomes sixth person to die | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A 33-year-old woman has become the sixth person to die after a car was driven into pedestrians in Melbourne. | |
The woman, who has not been named yet, died in hospital just before 7.30pm local time on Monday. | |
Three-month-old Zachary Bryant, Thalia Hakin, 10, Matthew Si, Jess Mudie and an unnamed Japanese man were also killed as the car sped through Bourke Street. | Three-month-old Zachary Bryant, Thalia Hakin, 10, Matthew Si, Jess Mudie and an unnamed Japanese man were also killed as the car sped through Bourke Street. |
Hospitals treated 37 other patients after the incident. Ten of those remain in hospital, with one in a critical condition. | |
Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26, has been charged with five counts of murder after the car mowed down pedestrians in the city centre on 20 January. | |
Victoria police say there are “other charges pending” but did not confirm on Monday night whether Gargasoulas will be charged with a sixth count of murder. | Victoria police say there are “other charges pending” but did not confirm on Monday night whether Gargasoulas will be charged with a sixth count of murder. |
The news came as City of Melbourne plans to remove the Bourke Street memorial on Tuesday morning. A council spokesperson confirmed the dismantling was likely to proceed despite news of the sixth death. | |
Flowers from the impromptu shrine will be mulched this week and scattered on a victims-of-crime memorial. | |
The teddy bears and letters that have been left by Victorians and visitors, many in Melbourne for the Australian Open, will be saved to form part of a permanent tribute. | |
More than $1m has been raised for families of the victims, including about $910,000 in the official Bourke St Fund. | |
Meanwhile, Angelo Gargasoulas, the brother of Dimitrious Gargasoulas, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed on 20 January, allegedly by his brother, about 11 hours before the car attack. | |
“Still in disbelief, the realism of it all has yet to fully sink in, stay strong Melbourne,” he wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend. | “Still in disbelief, the realism of it all has yet to fully sink in, stay strong Melbourne,” he wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend. |
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