Bondi Beach attack: What do we know about the victims, suspects?

Australia is mourning the victims of Sydney’s Bondi Beach attack.

Vigils were held a time aft 2 equipped men killed 15 radical astatine a Jewish Hanukkah celebration connected Sunday.

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At slightest 40 radical stay successful infirmary pursuing the attack, including 2 constabulary officers who are successful a superior but unchangeable condition, constabulary said. They said the shooting suspects are a father-son duo.

Here is what we cognize astir the victims and the shooting suspects.

What bash we cognize astir the Bondi Beach shooting victims?

The victims were aged betwixt 10 and 87 years, according to the police. Here is what we cognize astir 8 of the 15 victims, based connected section media reports:

Rabbi Eli Schlanger

The 41-year-old was an adjunct rabbi astatine Chabad Bondi, a planetary Jewish organisation that had organised Sunday’s lawsuit astatine a parkland adjacent the celebrated beach. Schlanger was British-born but had lived successful Sydney for the past 18 years, and had precocious go a begetter for the 5th time.

“Nothing was excessively large for him,” said person Alex Ryvchin, who is besides co-CEO of the enforcement assembly of Australian Jewry. “He would thrust retired to determination parts of the authorities and beryllium with prisoners successful our jails and perceive to their stories. He would spell to Waterloo and Redfern and to the nationalist lodging and beryllium with the elderly. He would perceive to their stories, provender them and marque definite they had meals and kosher products. He was the benignant of idiosyncratic who illuminated our lives with kindness, his grace and generosity.”

Schlanger’s brother-in-law, Rabbi Mendel Kastel, said the household was “broken”. “They person fallen apart,” Kastel told the Reuters quality agency.

Peter Meagher

A retired policeman and longtime rugby volunteer, Meagher was struck down portion moving arsenic a freelance lensman astatine the event, Randwick Rugby Club said successful a statement.

“‘Marzo’ arsenic helium was universally known, was a overmuch loved fig and implicit fable successful our club, with decades of voluntary involvement, helium was 1 of the bosom and psyche figures of Randwick Rugby,” the nine said.

“The tragic irony is that helium spent truthful agelong successful the unsafe beforehand enactment arsenic a Police Officer and was struck down successful status portion taking photos successful his passionateness relation is truly hard to comprehend,” it said.

“For him it was simply a catastrophic lawsuit of being successful the incorrect spot and astatine the incorrect time.”

Dan Elkayam

French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that a French national, Dan Elkayam, was killed successful the attack.

Elkayam, who section media reported was successful his precocious 20s and had gone down to observe astatine the festival, had been providing method enactment to planetary media institution NBC Universal successful Sydney since past December, according to his LinkedIn page.

He played with the Rockdale Ilinden Football Club premier league squad, wherever helium was “an highly talented and fashionable figure”, the nine said connected societal media.

Matilda

A superior schoolhouse student, 10-year-old Matilda, died connected Sunday night, her aunt confirmed connected societal media.

In a connection posted connected Facebook, the Harmony Russian School of Sydney said Matilda was a erstwhile student. “We grant her beingness and the clip she spent arsenic portion of our schoolhouse family,” the station said.

In section media reports, she has been described arsenic a “bright, joyful, and spirited kid who brought airy to those astir her”.

Reuven Morrison

A Chabad study described Morrison, different victim, arsenic “a subordinate of the Chabad assemblage who divided his clip betwixt Melbourne and Sydney”.

Alex Kleytman

The 87-year-old Holocaust subsister attended Sunday’s lawsuit with his wife, Larisa, besides a Holocaust survivor, their children and grandchildren, Chabad and section media reported.

The mates had recounted their experiences to aged-care supplier JewishCare, which referred to Alex’s harrowing memories of the “dreadful conditions successful Siberia, wherever he, on with his parent and younger brother, struggled for survival”.

The “scars of the past” did not deter them from seeking a brighter aboriginal successful Australia, arsenic they emigrated from Ukraine, JewishCare wrote successful its 2022-23 yearly report.

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan

Levitan served arsenic caput of the Sydney Jewish spiritual organisation Beth Din, Chabad said.

Tibor Weitzen

Weitzen has been identified arsenic 1 of the victims aft helium was fatally wounded portion shielding his woman from the gunfire, who survived the attack, the Daily Mail reported.

What bash we cognize astir the Bondi Beach onslaught suspects?

During a quality league connected Monday, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the suspects were a 50-year-old and his 24-year-old son.

“What’s truly important is to accidental we bash person a 24-year-old antheral successful infirmary astatine the moment,” Lanyon said.

“Based connected his aesculapian condition, it is apt that that idiosyncratic whitethorn look transgression charges. I’m precise mindful of not prejudicing immoderate prosecution of that person, if they’re enactment earlier the court.”

Lanyon added that the father, who was killed by constabulary astatine the scene, “is a licensed firearms holder who had six firearms licensed to him”, emphasising that helium “met the eligibility criteria for a firearms licence”.

He said authorities were not looking for immoderate different suspect.

Some Australian quality outlets, including the nationalist broadcaster ABC, identified the suspects arsenic Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24. However, the authorities person not confirmed their identities.