No bail application for 24-year-old charged with attempted murder over ANU campus stabbings

Police allege the man initially attacked a male student with a frying pan then stabbed two female students

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The man alleged to have stabbed two young women during an attack at the Australian National University on Monday has not applied for bail and will remain behind bars after being charged with attempted murder.

Alex Ophel, 24, appeared briefly before the ACT magistrates court, wearing a grey tracksuit and white thongs, one day after he allegedly stabbed two 20-year-old women on the ANU campus, leaving one with critical injuries.

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