The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, and they recently traveled to a part of the Philippines – which has previously been a hotbed of Islamic extremism.

Telangana Police say Bondi Beach shooting suspect Sajid Akram left Hyderabad in 1998, had limited contact with family in India and lived in Australia for nearly three decades.

On this episode of South, India Today’s Nagarjun Dwarakanath tracks the Hyderabad connection to the Sydney Bondi Beach shooting. The Telangana Police have confirmed that the attacker, Sajid Akram, hailed from Tolichowki.

Naveed Akram, the 24-year-old alleged shooter, was charged on Wednesday after waking from a coma in a Sydney hospital, where he has been since police shot him and his father at Bondi. His father Sajid Akram,

Sajid Akram, originally from Hyderabad, India, was a suspect in a mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Australia. He migrated to Australia in 1998 and was radicalized with his son, Naveed. The investigation examines their ties to jihadist networks and their travel to the Philippines for military training.

Sajid Akram was shot dead at the scene, while Naveed was arrested and remains under police guard in hospital with serious injuries.

The victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach range from a 10-year-old girl with a gentle soul to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor