December 2017 Melbourne car attack
| December 2017 Melbourne Islamist car terror attack | |
|---|---|
Corner of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street, where the incident took place, as seen in February 2006 | |
| Location | 37°49′06″S 144°57′54″E / 37.8182°S 144.9650°E Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Date | 21 December 2017 4:41 p.m. (AEDT) |
Attack type | Vehicular attack |
| Weapons | Suzuki Vitara |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 17 |
| Perpetrator | Saeed Noori |
On 21 December 2017, during the busy Christmas shopping period at 4:41 p.m. AEDT, an ISIS inspired driver deliberately drove in to a crowd of pedestrians with his car at the corner of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, killing one person and injuring seventeen others. The sole fatality, an elderly man, died eight days after the attack. "The accused said "Allahu Akbar" two or three times", and in his first police interview later that evening, Noori claimed Allah had told him to do it.