Australian police investigate why women were targeted in Sydney stabbing attack

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said Monday. The killer’s father blamed his son’s frustration at not having a girlfriend. Police shot and killed the homeless assailant, Joel Cauchi, during his knife attack in the Westfield Bondi Junction mall on Saturday near world-famous Bondi Beach. Police have ruled out terrorism and said the 40-year-old had a history of...