Sunshine traders and shoppers have described the horror of seeing a woman stabbed to death in broad daylight.
Restaurant owner Vu said the woman, who he had often seen in the Hampshire Street area, was involved in an argument with a man before she was stabbed shortly before 12.30pm last Wednesday.
“The girl was running away from him and they were having a loud fight,” he said.
Real estate agent Anjana said she ran from her office when she heard screaming.
She first saw a man running away before noticing the woman lying in a pool of blood on the other side of the road.
“There was a lady bleeding, and a few people were trying to do CPR on her. There was a lot of blood,” Anjana said.
Witness Le Hai, holding his six-month-old baby, looked on in horror as the violence broke out.
“There were a lot of people around at the time,” he said.
“This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this in my life.”
Phuong Nguyen, the manager of a nearby cafe, said one of his regular customers, a doctor, ran to help the woman before police and paramedics arrived.
An ambulance spokeswoman said the woman was in cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived.
The woman was pronounced dead about 12.30pm.
– with The Age
