A father-son pair unleashed hell at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Sunday evening, gunning down 15 at a crowded Hanukkah celebration in Australia’s bloodiest mass shooting in nearly three decades now 16 dead with the 50-year-old dad Sajid Akram killed on-site, his 24-year-old son Naveed critically wounded.
Police slammed it as a deliberate anti semitic hit on ~1,000 attendees in a beachside park, lasting just 10 frantic minutes with bolt-action rifles and shotguns scattering panicked crowds along sand and streets victims spanned ages 10 to 87, 40 hospitalized (including two stable cops), as the dad (immigrant since 1998 on student visa, licensed gun owner with 6 weapons since 2015) and Aussie-born son turned a festive night deadly.
Hero fruit vendor Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, body-slammed and disarmed one shooter despite taking two bullets (now post-surgery), sparking a GoFundMe surge past A$350K amid national grief, it spotlights Australia’s strict gun laws failing here, fueling urgent security probes and unity calls against hate.
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