How brave Westfield Bondi Junction retail workers saved the life of baby girl ... trends now
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Traumatised retail workers who heroically saved a nine-month-old baby have broken down in tears as they bravely returned to the scene of the Bondi stabbing rampage for the first time since the horror attack.
Ashlee Good, 38, thrusted her injured baby into the arms of strangers inside the Tommy Hilfiger store in Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon, begging them to save her daughter's life, despite being critically wounded herself.
Using clothes from the store to stem the bleeding, shoppers and staff desperately worked to stabilise the pair until emergency services arrived at the scene.
The baby girl is currently in a serious but stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery, however, despite the best efforts of bystanders and paramedics, her mother later died in hospital.
Tommy Hilfiger staff, along with workers from sister company Calvin Klein, gathered on Monday morning at the memorial set up in Oxford Street mall to honour the victims of the attack.
Retail workers from Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger lay flowers at the Bondi Junction memorial site on Monday
There were emotional scenes as the group hugged each other and wept
The group could be seen hugging one another as they broke down in tears after laying bouquets of flowers onto the ground.
The manager of Calvin Klein told Daily Mail Australia Tommy Hilfiger staff had worked to save the baby and her mother's life by collecting clothes from around the store and helping to compress their wounds.
Shortly after leaving the memorial site, those members of the group could be seen hugging each other as they sat on a wooden bench sobbing.
'It's still pretty raw for them,' she said.
The stores, which are both owned by parent company PVH Corp, are located on level four, but at opposite sides of the centre.
When chaos erupted on Saturday, both stores went into lockdown.
Two brothers who were in the Tommy Hilfiger store and helped saved the baby described their ordeal moments after being evacuated out of the centre on Saturday to a Channel Nine journalist live on air.
'The baby got stabbed and, yeah, the mum got stabbed,' one brother said.
'The mum came over with the baby and threw it at me.
'I just helped by holding the baby ... and trying to compress the baby.'
The manager said she organised for staff from the two stores to meet so they could support one another as they headed back to the site of the tragedy.
She said she wasn't working on Saturday, but was 'so proud' of her team who acted swiftly to bunker
