The Australian authorities confirmed this Monday that the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist attack perpetrated on Sunday on Bondi Beach, in Sydney, are a 50-year-old man, who died after the confrontation with the police, and his 24-year-old son, who remains hospitalized in police custody.
«We are convinced that in yesterday’s incident there were two offenders involved, one has died and the second is in critical condition, but stable in the hospital. “This is a 50-year-old man and a 24-year-old man, who are father and son,” said the Chief of the New South Wales Police, Mal Lanyon, in a press conference.
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The authorities carried out two searches during the night, one in Bonnyrigg and Campsie (both southwest of Sydney), the first where the attackers allegedly came from and the second, where they were staying at the time, Lanyon detailed.
The authorities confirmed that they are not looking for more suspects and that the deceased had had a weapons license for a decade, with at least six registered weapons. A total of six weapons were recovered from the scene of the attack and the home in Campsie.
One of the alleged perpetrators of the attack was identified the day before as Naveed Akram, a man from Bonnyrigg, according to a senior security forces official in statements to the public broadcaster ABC.
The Australian authorities continue this Monday the investigation of the terrorist attack that occurred on Sunday, which has so far left 16 people dead, including a 10-year-old girl, and at least 40 injured, including four minors, according to the latest police update.
The attack occurred around 6:40 p.m. local time (7:40 GMT) on Sunday, when two men armed with rifles opened fire on the crowd gathered in a park near the famous beach, one of the busiest and most touristy beaches in the country.
Fourteen people died at the scene and two others, including a 10-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man, later died in hospital.
The victims, not yet formally identified, would be between 10 and 87 years old and five injured remain in critical condition, according to authorities.
Lanyon confirmed the day before that the incident occurred in Archer Park, next to Bondi beach, during a celebration for the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in which nearly a thousand people were present.
“At 9:36 p.m. tonight I formally declared this a terrorist incident,” Lanyon said at a press conference on Sunday, explaining that special powers were activated to ensure that “there is no additional threat to the community.”
