Overview
- Police say the attackers were a 50-year-old father who was shot dead at the scene and his 24-year-old son who remains in critical condition.
- Anthony Albanese denounced the assault as an act of “pure evil” and described it as the country’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades.
- The gunfire erupted during an event marking the first day of Hanukkah, which the prime minister said was targeted at the Jewish community.
- Victims were reported to range in age from 10 to 87, as mourners returned to lay flowers and witnesses described gunfire that seemed to last for an eternity.
- A BBC correspondent reported the government is considering tighter gun controls and facing renewed scrutiny over its response to anti‑Semitism.