Hi, I’m Verity. I’m a member of CBC’s live page team. We’re following the developments of a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi beach in Australia, where two gunmen killed at least 11 people.
One of the suspected gunmen has died, and a police officer is among the 11 killed.
Leaders across the world are reacting in the aftermath of the shooting — which Australian officials say targeted a Jewish Hanukkah celebration and is being deemed a terrorist attack.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the shooting was a “targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith — an act of antisemitism, terrorism that has struck the heart of our nation.”
Albanese was speaking to reporters with Australian federal police assistant commissioner Nigel Ryan.
“An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian,” Albanese said. “What was unleashed today is beyond comprehension and the trauma and loss that families are dealing with tonight is beyond anyone’s worst nightmare.”
