Bondi Beach, Naveed Akram
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Naveed Akram, the surviving suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act, according to the New South Wales local court. The other gunman, his father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene.
Sajid Akram, involved in the Bondi Beach shooting, moved from Hyderabad to Australia in 1998 and made six visits to India primarily for family matters. , World News, Times Now
Sajid Akram, a 50-year-old man behind Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years, is of Indian-origin, say authorities. After earning a college degree in Hyderabad, he migrated to Australia in November 1998 in search of employment.
Indian police said on Tuesday that one of the two gunmen behind Australia's Bondi Beach mass shootings, Sajid Akram, was an Indian citizen who had left the country 27 years ago.
Terror suspect Sajid Akram, shot dead by Australian police after the Sydney attack, had limited contact with his Hyderabad family since emigrating in 1998. Authorities believe both Akram and his son,
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.
Australian police say one of the two men accused of attacking a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines on an Indian passport
Bondi Beach shooting live updates: Survivors recounted the horrific incident, in which two gunmen killed 15 people during a Hanukkah celebration, saying that as they looked around, “It was dead people everywhere.