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Bondi shooting victims identified as details emerge on shooters

BONDI TERROR ATTACK: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

* At least 15 civilians dead after shooters targeted a gathering of the Jewish community at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday to mark Hanukkah

* Forty-two people in NSW hospitals overnight

* Twenty-five were remained in hospital in varying condition as of 8am on Monday

* Victims are aged 10 to 87

* Rabbi Eli Schlanger and French national Dan Elkayam are among the victims killed

* Police have confirmed the shooters were a 50-year-old father and 24-year-old son 

* The older shooter is dead, while the younger man remains in hospital under police guard in a critical but stable condition

* The 50-year-old was a licenced firearm holder, with police recovering all six guns licenced to him

* The men were staying at a Campsie address in Sydney’s southwest but lived in Bonnyrigg in the city’s west, both properties raided

* Two active improvised explosive devices were found at the scene and removed by NSW Police’s Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit

* Police are not looking for a third offender

* Police have declared the mass shooting a terror attack but declined to speculate on motive or ideology

* Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it “pure evil” and vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to stamp out anti-Semitism

* NSW Premier Chris Minns flagged there will “almost certainly” be law reform as a result of the mass shooting

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