Performing CPR and first aid on injured victims before the police had even been alerted, the team used their rescue boards to carry wounded people away from the scene to North Bondi Surf Club for triage, all while gunshots could be heard across the beachfront.

A brave lifeguard has been praised for jumping into the water to save a drowning tourist while “shots were being fired” during the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach.

Lifesavers ran straight into the line of fire at Bondi to save those who had been shot, were drowning, as well as a woman in labour.

Fifteen people - including a 10-year-old girl and a British-born rabbi - were killed when two gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event.