A 24-year-old Bangladeshi woman was charged with engaging in a terrorist act after an alleged stabbing incident in Melbourne of Australia.
She is accused of stabbing a 56-year-old man in the neck while he was asleep at his home in Callistemon Rise of Mill Park on Friday afternoon.
Australian newspaper The Age said the Bangladeshi, Momena Shoma, travelled to Melbourne on February 1 on a student visa was renting a room in the 56-year-old's Mill Park home.
Local police said on Saturday that Momena Shoma was remanded in custody in a terrorist act after facing Melbourne Magistrates Court over the alleged "Islamic State-inspired" stabbing incident.
Police claimed that she was 'self-radicalised'.
Victoria Police acting Deputy Commissioner Ross Guenther said they believe it was a terrorism-related incident.
The alleged attack was witnessed by the man's five-year-old daughter, who was not injured.
Police and neighbours said Shoma was wearing a burqa at the time.
A neighbour told the Herald Sun newspaper the man managed to call her and she rushed to his home where she found him in the garage surrounded by a pool of blood.
"I saw all the blood, it was shocking, I saw so much blood," the neighbour said.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation also cited police as saying Shoma was wearing a black burqa at the time.
