Bondi beach shooting live updates: details of victims emerge after terror attack at Jewish festival kills 11 people and injures 29 | Bondi beach terror attack

The state’s police commissioner, Malcolm Lanyon, officially declared the attack a terrorist incident at 21.36 local time on Sunday.

He said there were “more than a thousand people” on the beach when the gunmen broke out during Hanukkah celebrations.

He confirmed there were two attackers, one of whom was killed during the police response, and confirmed that authorities were investigating whether there was a third shooter.

Journalists asked him why the shooting was declared a terrorist attack; This triggers a different set of legislation than other crimes.

“There were a number of circumstances. Obviously the fact that it was the first day of Hanukkah, the types of weapons, the criminals and some of the other items we found at the scene,” he said.

“We found an improvised explosive device in a car linked to the dead attacker.

“So there are a variety of conditions. And frankly the Jewish community has the right to feel safe.”

Ben Doherty from The Guardian reports from Bondi beach:

The killing went on for so long that the escapees had time to shout “they’re reloading” as they scrambled to find any safe place they could find.

Those who failed to do so were brutally shot.

“I saw children being targeted,” one man, who declined to give his name, told the Guardian. “I saw old people who couldn’t move being shot. It was a massacre. There was blood everywhere.

“Unbelievable. This doesn’t happen here. It doesn’t happen here.”

At least twelve people have died and nearly 30 people have been hospitalized following a mass shooting at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday. It was a terrorist attack described by the Prime Minister as “a demonic act of antisemitism, terrorism that strikes at the heart of this nation”.

Little information has emerged so far regarding the identities of those killed and injured in the attack on Bondi beach.

We know that 11 people were killed and one of the armed attackers also died. In addition to the 29 victims, including two police officers who were injured while responding to the attack, a second gunman was also injured.

• London-born rabbi Eli Schlanger41-year-old named as one of the victims, Jewish News reports. The father-of-five, who is assistant rabbi at the Jewish cultural center Chabad of Bondi, grew up in Temple Fortune, north London. His first cousin, Rabbi Zalman Lewis, who lives in Brighton, told the Jewish News: “How could the life of a cheerful rabbi who went to the beach to spread happiness and light, to make the world a better place, end this way?”

• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that an Israeli citizen was among the dead. The victim’s name was not stated.

• Jerusalem Post reported One of the contributors Arsen OstrovskyThe head of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council Sydney office was also injured in the attack.

Overnight, Australians grieved the shocking attack on Jewish Australians at the country’s iconic Bondi beach.

Societies are still reeling. “This senseless attack is a terrorist actor,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement on Sunday night. “My message to Australian Jews is that your fellow Australians join you tonight in condemning this act of terrorism.”

• In what Australian police and officials described as a terrorist attack, at least 11 people were killed and approximately 30 people were injured when gunmen opened fire on Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi beach on Sunday. One of the armed attackers also lost his life.

• London-born rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, has been named as one of the victims of the bondi beach terror attack. Jewish News reports The father-of-five, who is assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi, a Jewish cultural centre, grew up in Temple Fortune, north London, and had family members at Kinloss synagogue in Finchley, he said.

• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that an Israeli citizen was among the dead.

• A number of “suspicious devices” were found following a shooting on Sunday where hundreds of people had gathered for the Hanukkah by the Sea event to mark the start of the Jewish festival.

• A man who rushed to the scene to fight one of the gunmen had two gunshot wounds, one in his arm and the other in his hand, but was in stable condition at the hospital, his relative said. Seven News reported The spectator was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from Sutherland Shire.

• British police will deploy more officers to Jewish communities following the anti-Semitic terror attack on Australia’s Bondi beach. Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights, also known as Chanukah, begins on Sunday evening and celebrations are planned across the UK in the coming days.