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Bondi Beach Shooting: Cop who shot dead Sajid Akram joined force because he ‘hates crime’

December 17, 2025 7:57 pm

“My name is Cess Barraza and I want to be a police officer because I hate crime,” the then 26-year-old said in the resurfaced video.

Bondi Beach Shooting: Spy agency had warned about Naveed Akram’s extremist links before Sajid Akram was granted gun licence

December 17, 2025 7:21 pm

Before Sajid Akram was granted a gun licence, the domestic intelligence agency ASIO had warned NSW Police that his son, Naveed Akram, had been associating with Islamic extremists.

Sydney's Bondi Beach shooting: Naveed Akram, one of the gunmen, charged with 59 offences

December 17, 2025 4:36 pm

Bondi Beach attack: Naveed Akram was charged after waking from a coma in a Sydney hospital, where he has been since police shot him and his gunman father at Bondi.

Bondi Beach Shooting: Second bystander seen in al-Ahmed’s viral video threw bricks at gunman before being shot dead, says daughter

Bondi Beach Shooting: Second bystander seen in al-Ahmed’s video threw bricks at gunman before being shot dead

December 16, 2025 11:40 pm

Morrison, who was born in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, when it was part of the USSR, came to Australia five decades ago at the age of 14 as a refugee fleeing antisemitic persecution.

Bondi Beach Shooting: Video shows elderly couple tackling down Sajid Akram before they were gunned down

December 16, 2025 6:32 pm

69-year-old Boris Gurman and his 61-year-old wife Sofia Gurman, were walking along Campbell Parade when one of the gunmen, Sajid Akram, started opening fire.

Bondi Beach Shooting: Syrian immigrant who tackled the shooter says he ‘would do it again’

December 15, 2025 7:51 pm

Ahmed, who was born in Syria, came to Australia in 2006, and had a tough road ahead of him before he was eventually granted citizenship, in 2022 after a lengthy legal process.

Aftermath of a knife attack at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, in Sydney

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney against 2 clergymen is being treated as terrorism

April 16, 2024 7:47 am

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the boy was 16, adding that “there is no place for violence in our community. There's no place for violent extremism.”

Sydney attack victims include a mother who saved her baby, a Chinese grad student and an architect

April 15, 2024 10:59 pm

Those killed were five women and one man. Twelve people were wounded, and police said they mostly were female.

Indian-origin couple hid in backroom barricaded with dozens during Sydney mall knife attack

April 13, 2024 9:37 pm

Shoi Ghoshal from Sydney told the BBC that she and her husband Debashis Chakrabarty were at the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction earlier today when the attack started to unfold.

Sydney siege ends: 3 dead, including gunman, after police storm cafe

December 16, 2014 6:49 am

Media reports said two were killed and three others seriously injured in the raid but police said they cannot confirm the casualties.

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Sydney Siege ends after police storms cafe

December 16, 2014 11:24 am

The deadly Sydney siege ended after midnight with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the gunman dead, four others wounded, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core.