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At 6.41pm Sunday, on a footbridge overlooking Archer Park at Bondi beach, two gunmen opened fired in what would become Australia’s worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre. Guardian Australia’s video team has verified and pieced together footage posted to social media, showing the attack from different angles
Video, maps , and footage from social media show how the deadly bondi terror attack unfolded on Sunday the 14th of December.
It’s 6:40 p.m and hundreds have gathered at a small park on the beach for Hanukkah by the sea, it was the first day of the Jewish festival of lights .
At about the same time,the alleged gunman Naveed Akram and his father emerge from their silver hatchback parked on Campbell Parade.
Sajid is confronted by Boris German and his wife Sophia, Boris attempts to tackle Sajid and tries to wrestle the high -powered longarm rifle from his hands- the couple are killed.
Naveed and his father walk 15 meters to a foot bridge,giving them an elevated view down to the park,the shooting begins.
The people in the park try to flee, and all the way to the beach and the sea.
people are reacting in terror at the sounds of gunshots.
Back at the bridge,Sajid descends a short staircase at the end of the foot bridge and walks towards the park…
While Naveed continues to fire from the bridge.
meters away from the park , Ahmed al- Ahmed , an unarmed man using the cover of a car , approaches Sajid and lunges at his neck arms.
He disarms Sajid and and points the rifle towards him,Ahmed does not shoot, Sajid stumbles and retreats.
Ahmed al Ahmed then places the weapon at the base of a tree.
At about 6:47 p. m., Sajid starts to walk back up the steps of the foot bridge and picks up the third rifle.
At this point, shots appear to be fired back by police officers.by Guardian News, from available footage , there have been 61 gunshots.
The gunman and police briefly exchange fire,Sajid suddenly reels back and collapses on the ground.
At 6:50, p.m.,Naveed also crumples and falls to the ground, for the first time in 6 minutes the shooting stops.
Unarmed civilians reach the bridge first,seconds after the attack stops.
As police reach the bridge from both sides scuffles appear to break up out.
More police swarm the foot bridge minutes later and attempt to keep members of the public from approaching,they begin CPR on Naveed.
After the attack, ambulances take 42 patients to hospitals across Sidney.
At around 8:00 p.m., New south Wales raid the Akram’s home in Bonnyrigg.
And 10 :13 p.m.,police announced they have found improvised explosive devices in the shooter’s car.
Bomb disposal experts diffuse the bomb.
A suitably bleak shoreline at Bondi laden with the chaos of the evening before,Sidney’s Jewish community is only beginning to comprehend the depth of this tragedy.
Some of the 15 murdered people have been named ,including businessman
Reuven Morrison Morrison.
Former police officer, Peter Meagher
French national Dan Elkayam.
And 10 year old Matilda.
Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman,Tibor Weitzen and Yaakov Levitan have also been named.
Eli Schlanger is among those confirmed dead, father of five ,his youngest just a baby.
Today , the crucial thing is being here.
6 years ago , Naveed Akram was preaching on the streets of Sidney,age just 17 , he was among a group of street preachers pushing radical Islam.
They posed as peaceful messengers of the profet Muhammad to passing teenagers, Not long after this video was recorded, he came to the notice of Australia’s domestic spy agency, ASIO.
Naveed , first came to attention in October 2019,he was examined on the basis of being associated with others.
Senior counterterrorism officials told the ABC Naveed Akram landed on ASIO’s radar after these police raids on Islamic terrorism cell.
He was closely associating with members of the cell ,including the group’s celf- declared Australian commander, Isaak el Matari ,who was later jailed for planning terrorist attacks.
6 years later , at the age of 24 , the former plumber is in police custody after the deadliest terrorist attack in the nation’s history.
His 50 year old father , Sajid Akram , an Indian -born licensed gun holder from Sidney’s south , was shot dead by police at the scene.
Investigators now tracking suspected links to the Islamic state terrorist group in Australia and abroad.
Counterterrorism officials have told 730 that Naveed Akram is also connected to a notorious radical cleric. Wisam Haddad.
Identified by an ABC investigation earlier this year as a spiritual leader of a pro- Islamic state network in Australia.
A lawyer fro Mr Haddad has told 730 he denies any knowledge of or involvement in the Bondi shootings.
Whisam Haddad has been closely watched by ASIO for most of his adult life, but never charged with a terrorism offense ,This year, the federal court found he’d breached racial discrimination laws with anti – semitic lectures.
This year, a former spy told four corners how he infiltrated Haddad’s Sydney prayer center, the Al Medina Dawa Center in Bankstown.
Officials have told Naveed Akram was also close to this convicted IS recruiter.
Who made hadlines for raising a black flag at this year’s Sidney Harbor Bridge march and confronting a protester.
As police piece together Akram’s history of extremism, questions are now mounting about why his father Sajiid was granted a gun liences.
Legal experts have revealed Naveed Akram could face murder charges for the killings his father committed during the Bondi Beach terror attack under joint criminal enterprise laws.