One of the alleged Bondi beach shooters visited a firearms shop during his visit to the Philippines, local police have revealed as they investigate what the pair did in the weeks before the mass shooting. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed stayed in a hotel in Davao City for four weeks before returning to Australia on 28 November, only two weeks before they allegedly killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others at a Hanukah celebration in Sydney on Sunday.
On Sunday, father-and-son gunmen armed with shotguns killed 15 people and injured 40 more at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Their target was Chanukah by the Sea, an annual event run by the Chabad of Bondi. The dead include a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a 10-year-old girl. It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a tragedy that reshaped the nation.
Fifteen people were killed when, according to local police, father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram allegedly opened fire on more than 1,000 people attending a Jewish festival in the Archer Park area of the popular beach at 6.47pm local time on Sunday. Sajid Akram, 50, was shot by police and died at the scene, but 24-year-old Naveed, who awoke from a coma on Tuesday, was charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and committing a terrorist attack, New South Wales (NSW) Police confirmed.
According to authorities and witness accounts, a father-and-son pair of gunmen armed with rifles opened fire on a huge crowd of people assembled early Sunday night at Bondi Beach for a "Hanukkah By The Sea" event hosted by the Chabad of Bondi. Footage of the attack showed the gunmen firing from a bridge on the crowd as people fled the gunfire in a panic.
At about 5pm, the Chanukah by the Sea event begins at Archer Park, a small, grassy area at the back of Bondi beach. The park is just north of Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving club, and has several small shelters for picnics and a children's playground. Chanukah by the Sea is a regular event for Bondi's large Jewish community, to mark the beginning of the religious festival.
Six teenagers were wounded in a mass shooting at a Brooklyn "Sweet 16" birthday bash early Sunday morning - with a pair of gunmen still on the loose, according to police. Cops responded to Burbuja Events catering hall at 2929 Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills on a 911 call shortly after 1:15 a.m., where they found the victims with gunshot wounds, police said.
Two gunmen responsible for a Brooklyn mass shooting early on Sunday morning that left six teenagers injured remain on the lam, police reported. According to police sources, the teens were hanging out in front of Burbuja Events located at 2929 Atlantic Ave. in Cypress Hills amid the falling snow at around 1:16 a.m. on Dec. 14 when a hail of gunshots rang out.
A manhunt is underway in South Africa after a shooting incident at a bar near the city of Pretoria caused the deaths of at least 11 people, including three children aged from 3 to 16, police said on Saturday. Another 14 were wounded in the shooting in the "shebeen" in the township of Saulsville, 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of Pretoria, they said.
Gunmen have stormed into a hostel in South Africa's capital and killed at least 11 people, including a three-year-old child, and injured more than a dozen others. I can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said of the early morning attack in Pretoria. She said 14 people had been hospitalised. Ten died on this particular scene, and one died in hospital, added Mathe.