Sydney police fatally shot man wielding 50cm machete during wife’s alleged brawl in Westfield car park

Women in ‘melee’ in Mount Druitt were not known to each other and it was ‘sheer fluke’ they met, police say

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A man shot dead by police while wielding a large machete was approaching a group of women involved in a shopping centre car park brawl that included his wife, police have alleged.

The 29-year-old died at the Mount Druitt Westfield in Sydney’s west on Saturday afternoon with the officers involved in the incident hailed for their actions.

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