Six people were killed and many more injured when Joel Cauchi carried out his attack on 13 April. At least 12 others, including nine women, were taken to hospital after suffering stab wounds, and six remain in hospital. A police officer, Amy Scott, shot Cauchi dead at the scene.
Five of the six killed were women - Ash Good, 38, Dawn Singleton, 25, Jade Young, 47, Pikria Darchia, 55, and Yixuan Cheng, 27. Faraz Tahir, a 30-year-old refugee who fled persecution in his native Pakistan, was also killed.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, were among those who lit candles. Albanese said the crowd gathered "to grieve for what has been stolen from us".
"All the possibility and potential.
All the kindness and humanity," he said. "All the love and laughter of the six lives snatched away on that hardest of Saturday afternoons." He said the vigil was to honour the victims and to "mourn for all the years of joy they should have known".
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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