2025-12-14
14 分钟This is a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jalil.
Australian police say a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney in which at least 11 people were killed targeted the Jewish community.
An event being held on the beach to mark the start of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah was being attended by hundreds of people.
World leaders have condemned the attack.
Israel's president has described the government as vile terrorists.
As we recall this special podcast,
Australian police have confirmed at least 11 people have been killed in a mass shooting at one of the country's most popular tourist sites,
Bondi Beach in Sydney, and that the attack targeted the Jewish community.
Videos posted on social media showed two men dressed in black shirts firing long barreled weapons.
One of them on a pedestrian bridge overlooking the beach.
One of the attackers was killed, the other one is wounded and in police custody.
Nearly 30 other people have been taken to hospitals,
among them two police officers who were seriously injured.
Witnesses describe the moment the attack began.
I went for a smoke.
and then the shooting starts and everyone is running down and two police officers lying down on the ground next to me I fell down and the blood was coming from my hand.
It's impossible I was holding somebody's child because he was screaming I was saving this child.
we were walking to the beach super close to the beach and
as we were walking closer and closer we just saw a herd of people coming towards us and yelling there's a gunman there's a gunman please turn back turn back turn back so natural instinct just kicked in and we just started running with the herd as well it was um quite scary we heard some gunshots and we could smell the gunpowder as well so yeah it was quite scary i'm still a bit um shaken up by it as well A rescue bomb disposal unit has been deployed to the scene after police found a vehicle which they believe has several improvised explosive devices.