A Hanukkah menorah was projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House in memory of the victims of Sunday's shooting. Photo / David Gray, AFP
A Hanukkah menorah was projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House in memory of the victims of Sunday's shooting. Photo / David Gray, AFP
A vigil was held outside the Bondi Pavilion last night to honour the victims’ lives lost in Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in decades.
The Jewish community was surrounded by hundreds of supporters, who laid flowers and paid tribute to the 15 innocent people killed and dozens more injured, 24 hoursafter the horror unfolded.
NSW Premier Chris Minns and Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane placed flowers at the Bondi Pavilion memorial site where a menorah was lit.
“Yesterday was a tragic event, which words cannot explain,” Rabbi Yossi Shuchat told the crowd as they gathered on the second night of the Jewish holiday.
The death toll rose to 16 yesterday, including a girl, 10, and a man, 40, who died in hospital. One of the two alleged gunmen also died.
Members of the public lay flowers at a memorial at Bondi Pavilion. Photo / Getty Images
NSW Police said the dead range in age from 10 to 87 years.
A further 26 people remain in hospital, including seven in a critical condition and seven in a critical but stable condition as of Monday night. Two injured police officers are in a serious but stable condition.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was earlier heckled while visiting a memorial for the 15 innocent people killed in the Bondi terror attack.
Burke went to pay his respects at the memorial outside the Bondi Pavillion on Monday evening but was followed by shouts of “blood on your hands, Tony Burke”, and “shame on you”, from members of the public.
The Albanese government has been attracting criticism at home and abroad for its lack of action on anti-Semitism.
Independent MP Allegra Spender said earlier on Monday that the government has made “many missteps in relation to anti-Semitism” and “must do better”.
Father and son Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday.
The 50-year-old was shot and killed by police, while the 24-year-old was shot before being taken into custody in a critical condition.
As of 8pm (10pm NZT) last night, the conditions of those still in hospital following Sunday’s Bondi terror attack was:
Three patients are in a stable condition at Prince of Wales Hospital
One patient is in a critical condition, and two are in a stable condition at St George Hospital
One patient is in a stable condition at Sydney Eye Hospital
Three patients are in a critical condition and two patients are in a critical but stable condition at St Vincent’s Hospital
Three patients are in a critical condition, two patients are in a critical but stable condition and one patient is stable at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Three patients are in a stable condition at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
One patient is in a critical but stable condition and two patients are in a stable condition at Royal North Shore Hospital
Two patients are in a stable condition at Liverpool Hospital.
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