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SYDNEY: Two gunmen opened fire at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding multiple others in a “terrorist incident” during a gathering for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
Emergency responders rushed another 29 people to various hospitals from the beach, one of the biggest tourist draws in Australia’s largest city, said New South Wales police.
One of the alleged shooters was killed, and the second was in a critical condition, police said.
Police declared the shooting a “terrorist incident” and revealed they had found suspected “improvised explosive devices” in a vehicle near the beach that was linked to the “deceased offender”.
“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith — an act of evil, antisemitism, terrorism that has struck the heart of our nation,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a televised address.
“An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”
The shooting took place during an annual “Hanukkah by the Sea” event in the afternoon at Bondi Beach.
