The death toll from Sunday’s shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia has risen to 16. including one of the attackers, Australian authorities said. Another 40 people remain in hospital. According to information one Slovak woman is supposed to be among the victims.
The incident took place on Bondi Beach around 6:45 p.m. local time (8:45 a.m. CET), when two gunmen attacked people celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon reported that the attackers were a father (50) and son (24). The police managed to shoot the older shooter, while they detained the other. The younger of the pair was identified by the authorities as Návid Akram, who he is in critical but stable condition. Australian authorities are not looking for any other perpetrators.
The police confirmed that The 50-year-old attacker had a permit to possess six firearms. Police in New South Wales are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack aimed at the Jewish community in Sydney. “What we saw yesterday was an act of sheer evil… An act of anti-Semitism, an act of terrorism on our shores, in an iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach,” announced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference early Monday morning Australian time.
According to the police, the victims are between ten and 87 years old. One of them is a 10-year-old girl. The original information set the number of victims at 12 and the number of injured at 29. The incident was also condemned by several international leaders and organizations.
