Indian National Identified As One Of Two Shooters In Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack

Sajid Akram, 50, one of the two Bondi Beach attackers who killed at least 16 people at a Jewish event on Sunday (December 14, 2025) in Australia, is from Hyderabad, Indian government officials who ran a background check on the deceased told The Hindu. He last came to India in 2022.

After migrating to Australia on a student’s visa in 1998, Akram, a resident of Tolichowki in Hyderabad, came to India only on “two-three occasions,” officials said.

“His father died in 2017; he did not even come to attend his last rites,” said a top government official said.