Bondi beach shooting: Suspect originally from Hyderabad, says Telangana police

Sajid Akram, one of the suspects in the recent mass shooting at Bondi beach in Australia, is a native of Hyderabad, the Telangana Police said on Tuesday.

He migrated to Australia 27 years ago and had limited contact with his family in Hyderabad, the Telangana DGP office said in a statement.

The factors that led to radicalisation of Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram appear to have no connection with India or any local influence in Telangana, it said.


Sajid Akram completed his B.Com in Hyderabad and migrated to Australia in search of employment in November 1998, it said.

A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia's federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.

The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man, whom state officials named as Sajid Akram, was shot dead. His son was being treated at a hospital.