Who is Naveed Akram, 24-year-old gunman identified as alleged shooter in Sydney’s Bondi Beach attack | World News
The law enforcement official further stated that Akram’s home in the suburb of Bonnyrigg was reportedly raided police on Sunday evening. (Photo: X)
The Australian authorities have reportedly identified one of the alleged shooters in Sydney’s Bondi Beach attack which killed at least 11 people on Sunday as Naveed Akram, 24, a man from the city’s south-west, ABC News reported quoting a senior law enforcement official.
The law enforcement official further stated that Akram’s home in the suburb of Bonnyrigg was reportedly raided police on Sunday evening. The New South Wales (NSW) police on Sunday said that one of the two gunmen was killed at the scene, while the other received critical injuries and was taken into custody. However it remains unclear which one is Akram.
A mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration killed at least 12 people, marking one of Australia’s deadliest gun attacks in decades. (AP Photo)
According to NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon, one of the shooters was known to the adminration but “the person that we know has very, very little knowledge to the police. So he’s not someone that we would have automatically been looking at at this time.”
What happened at Bondi Beach
More than 1,000 people had gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday to mark a Jewish holiday celebration, Hanukkah, when two gunmen opened fire and killed at least 11 people while 29 others were injured. Australian Prime Miner Anthony Albanese called the attack an act of antisemitic terrorism which has struck the heart of the nation, AP reported.
My statement on the Bondi shooting attack. pic.twitter.com/LRAbMpcUEm— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) December 14, 2025
NSW police said that authorities were examining a number of suspicious items, including several improvised explosive devices found in one of the suspect’s cars. Authorities further said that far more people would have died in the mass shooting if a stander, identified local media as fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, had not charged at one of the gunmen and wrestled his weapon from his hands.
The mass shootout on Sunday was among the most serious antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars in Australia since the beginning of Israeli war in Gaza in October 2023. Australian Prime Miner Anthony Albanese condemned the attack and said that the evil that was unleashed was “beyond comprehension”.
