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Youngest Bondi Beach Hanukkah Shooting Victim Identified as 10-Year-Old Matilda Poltavchenko

Police are pursuing a terrorism investigation into the father–son gunmen as one suspect remains hospitalized and explosives linked to the scene are assessed.

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Family and friends are paying tribute to those killed during the Bondi Beach terror attack.
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Overview

  • Authorities report at least 16 people dead and more than 40 injured after the attack on a Chanukah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
  • Family tributes named Matilda Poltavchenko, 10, as the youngest victim, and a GoFundMe organized by her former teacher is raising support for her mother, Valentina.
  • Other victims publicly identified include Rabbi Eli (Feivel) Schlanger, Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, French footballer Dan Elkayam, rabbi Yaakov Levitan, community member Reuven Morrison, and ex-police officer Peter Meagher.
  • NSW Police said the shooters were a father and son, 50-year-old Sajid Akram who was killed at the scene and 24-year-old Naveed Akram who is in custody after being hospitalized.
  • Officials have labeled the attack an antisemitic act of terrorism, and investigators recovered suspected explosive devices as two police officers remain among the wounded.