At least 12 people are dead after a mass shooting at a Jewish celebration at Bondi beach on Sunday evening, including one shooter

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At least 12 people are dead, including one shooter, after an attack on a Hanukah celebration on Bondi beach in Sydney on Sunday evening, which has been declared a terrorism event. Here’s what we know so far:

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said at least 12 people had been killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukah event at Bondi beach on Sunday evening, including one of the alleged shooters.

A second alleged shooter was in a critical condition, police said, and they were investigating whether there was a third attacker.

Police have designated the attack a terrorism incident.

NSW police and the director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess, said one of the shooters was known to authorities, “but not in an immediate threat perspective”.

Police said 29 people had been taken to hospital, including two police officers who were in a “serious, verging on a critical” condition. One child was among those taken to hospital.

Police said the bomb disposal unit was investigating a vehicle on Campbell Parade, the main road that runs behind the beach, which they believed might have contained several improvised explosive devices.

At 6.47pm on Sunday, police and emergency services were called to Archer Park, a grassed area just north of the Bondi Pavilion, which sits just behind the beach.

Video shared online from the scene showed people fleeing the beach and distressing scenes of people lying on the ground receiving treatment.

After 8pm, a police spokesperson said “there are no more active shooters”.

The co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Alex Ryvchin, said the organisation’s director of media had been injured in the incident.

Australia’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal, said the Bondi attack “marks the worst fear of the Australian Jewish community becoming reality”.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, called it “an act of evil antisemitism” and a “dark moment for our nation”.

Minns said it was “a terrible night for Sydney”. He said “terrorists … want Australians divided and at each other’s throats and we can’t let that happen”.

The federal opposition leader, Sussan Ley, said Australians were “in deep mourning”, with “hateful violence striking at the heart of an iconic Australian community, a place we all know so well and love”.

Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia

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A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.

Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a long-barrelled weapon and firing into the distance.

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