MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An investigation that has extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “wider terrorist cell,” police said Tuesday. Sydney residents Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24, spent most of November … Read more
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he had ordered a review of police and intelligence services after two gunmen shot and killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Bondi Beach. A father and son are accused of spraying bullets at a family-filled Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s most famous beach on December 14, … Read more
The father and son suspected of carrying out Sunday’s Bondi Beach massacre holed up in a hotel for most of their nearly month-long stay in the Philippines in November, rarely leaving their rooms and eating fast food, a hotel employee told CNN. Sajid and Naveed Akram would only go outside the building for almost an … Read more
Credit: Instagram/mian.ores – X Families were tossing jelly-filled donuts and children catching balloons when the first shots pierced the sound of music in the park behind Bondi Beach. Dressed in black and carrying long-armed rifles, two gunmen opened fire on hundreds, turning ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ into a war zone. It was 6:47pm, just before … Read more
Naveed Akram. one of the alleged shooters One of the gunmen who opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach has been named as Naveed Akram. A driver’s license found at the scene lists his address as Bonnyrigg, in Sydney’s south-west, where police raided on Sunday evening. The 24-year-old suspect, who was shot dead … Read more
Credit: X Bystanders tackled and subdued one of the alleged Bondi Beach shooters in a heroic act that could have saved lives during the Hanukkah mass shooting. Footage shows an unidentified man hiding behind a parked car before jumping on the shooter. He fights him and fights off what appears to be a rifle. After … Read more