Police search the home of a suspect in Bonnyrigg, following a deadly shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025.
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An mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said on Tuesday (December 16, 2025).
The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man was shot dead while his son was being treated at a hospital on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at a news conference on Tuesday that officials were making their first comments about the suspects’ ideologies because of evidence they had obtained, including “the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized.”
There are 25 people still being treated in hospitals after Sunday’s massacre, 10 of them in critical condition.
Published – December 16, 2025 09:07 am IST
