Gunmen kill 9 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach with 1 shooter dead and another arrested
SYDNEY AP Two gunmen shot dead nine people on Sunday at Sydney s Bondi Beach police stated One gunman was fatally shot by police and the second arrested The suspect was in critical condition agents declared A massive urgency response was underway with injured people loaded into ambulances Eleven people were ratified wounded according to a report by police in New South Wales state where Sydney is located Two of those hurt were police officers Australian officials haven t endorsed what the target of the mass shooting was Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea which was celebrating the start of the Hanukkah Jewish festival Dramatic footage apparently filmed by a member of the residents and broadcast on Australian television channels established someone appearing to tackle and disarm one of the gunmen before pointing the man s weapon at him Lachlan Moran from Melbourne was waiting for his family nearby when he heard shots he advised The Associated Press He dropped the beer he was carrying for his brother and ran You heard a minimal pops and I freaked out and ran away I started sprinting I just had that intuition I sprinted as swiftly as I could Moran revealed He disclosed he heard shooting off and on for about five minutes Everyone just dropped all their possessions and everything and were running and people were crying and it was just horrible Moran disclosed Police commented their operation was ongoing and that a number of suspicious items located in the vicinity were being examined by specialist officers Emergency services were called to Campbell Parade about p m responding to reports of shots being fired Local news outlets spoke to distressed and bloody bystanders who witnessed the horror New South Wales Premier Chris Minns described the reports and images coming from the scene as deeply distressing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese noted in a message that his thoughts were with all those affected The scenes in Bondi are shocking and distressing he announced Police and emergency responders are on the ground working to save lives Mass shooting deaths in Australia are extremely rare A massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur where a lone gunman killed people prompted the authorities to drastically tighten gun laws and made it much more laborious for Australians to acquire firearms Substantial mass shootings this century included two murder-suicides with death tolls of five people in and seven in in which gunmen killed their own families and themselves In two police officers were shot and killed by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state The three shooters in that case conspiracy theorists who hated the police were also shot and killed by officers after a six-hour siege in the region of Wieambilla along with one of their neighbors McGuirk published from Melbourne Australia and Graham-McLay from Wellington New Zealand Source
