Ten-year-old, Holocaust survivors among Bondi Beach dead

A young girl and Holocaust survivors were among 15 people allegedly shot and killed by a father and his son at a Jewish Hanukkah festival gathering on Australia’s Bondi Beach. The elder gunman, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, was killed in a shootout with police. His 24-year-old son, Naveed, is in hospital, under police guard and charged […]

A young girl and Holocaust survivors were among 15 people allegedly shot and killed by a father and his son at a Jewish Hanukkah festival gathering on Australia’s Bondi Beach.
The elder gunman, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, was killed in a shootout with police.
His 24-year-old son, Naveed, is in hospital, under police guard and charged on multiple counts, including terrorism and 15 murders.
The shooting victims, some killed while trying to protect others from the assailants in Sunday’s shooting, were aged from 10 to 87.
Among them was a ten-year-old Matilda who died in the hospital after the shooting.
Retired mechanic and Bondi local Boris Gurman and his wife, Sofia, tackled Sajid Akram and became the first victims in the shooting.
Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, was the oldest person killed.
Alex Kleytman was a native of Ukraine and a Holocaust survivor, according to a website of the Chabad movement, which represents a branch of Hasidic Jews and organised the Bondi event.
Another Holocaust survivor, Marika Pogany, was seated in the front row of the annual Hanukkah event when the gunmen opened fire, Chabad said.
Reuven Morrison, reportedly a 62-year-old businessman who migrated from the Soviet Union in the 1970s, was killed while trying to distract the gunmen.
Tibor Weitzen, 78, was killed while protecting a friend at the event, which he had reportedly joined with his wife and grandchildren.