Overview
- Police say about 1,000 people were attending the Hanukkah gathering near Bondi Beach when two gunmen opened fire from a parking area.
- Officers report 14 died at the scene and two more died in hospital, with 42 people taken to hospitals and victims ranging in age from about 10 to 87.
- Authorities describe the shooting as a deliberate attack on Jewish celebrants and have opened a terrorism investigation citing an antisemitic motive.
- Detectives searched the suspects’ home about 36 kilometers west of central Sydney as forensic and criminal inquiries continue.
- Eyewitness video shows a local shop owner tackling and disarming one attacker; he was wounded, underwent surgery, and a fundraiser has raised more than A$200,000 for him.