MELBOURNE, July 17 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,200 Australian sought counseling after a motorist killed six people in Melbourne in January, a government report released on Monday said.
It is alleged that Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26, intentionally drove his car into crowds at high speeds in a pedestrian-only section of the Bourke Street shopping mall on Jan 20, killing six people and injuring dozens of others.
A report released by Emergency Management Victoria on Monday analyzing the fallout from the incident found that 1,254 people, including 38 children, from all Australian states were referred to counseling with 59 being "severely impacted" by the event.
Everyone injured in the incident has been released from hospital but 16 victims are still going through rehabilitation programs.
Victorian State Coroner will open in inquest into the deaths of the six people on Thursday, six months since the incident occurred.
More than 4,000 Australians donated 1.25 million U.S. dollars to the Victorian government's Bourke Street Fund which was distributed to the families of those who were killed.
Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, said the City of Melbourne would continue to work on providing support for everyone who needed it.
"We are now in the recovery phase and that responsibility has passed to us at the city," Doyle told Australian media on Monday.
"There is still a lot of work going on around the preventive measures we are putting in.
"We've announced we are going to extend the CCTV camera network, we've announced we are going to put a loudspeaker system on that network, with warning messages on them. We're working on how we liaise closely with the police on that."
