Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State group

MELBOURNE Australia AP A mass shooting in which people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney s Bondi Beach was a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State Australia s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett declared Tuesday The persons were a father and son aged and executives have declared The older man was shot dead while his son was being treated at a hospital on Tuesday A news conference by political and law enforcement leaders on Tuesday was the first time bureaucrats verified their beliefs about the subjects ideologies Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the remarks were based on evidence obtained including the presence of Islamic State flags in the wagon that has been seized There are people still being treated in hospitals after Sunday s massacre of them in critical condition Three of them are patients in a children s hospital Also among them is a man who was captured on video appearing to tackle and disarm one assailant before pointing the man s weapon at him and then setting the gun on the ground Those killed ranged in age from to years old They were attending a Hanukkah event at Australia s most of famous beach Sunday when the gunshots rang out Albanese and the leaders of various of Australia s states have pledged to tighten the country s already strict gun laws in what would be the the majority sweeping reforms since a shooter killed people in Port Arthur Tasmania in Mass shootings in Australia have since been rare Leaders divulged more information as general questions and anger grew on the third day following the attack about how the persons were able to plan and enact it and whether Australian Jews had been sufficiently protected from rising antisemitism Albanese reported plans to further restrict access to guns in part because it emerged the older suspect had amassed his cache of six weapons legally The suspected murderers callous in how they allegedly coordinated their attack appeared to have no regard for the age or ableness of their casualties commented Barrett It appears the alleged killers were interested only in a quest for a death tally The subjects traveled to the Philippines last month explained Mal Lanyon the Police Commissioner for New South Wales state Their reasons for the trip and where in the Philippines they went would be probed by investigators Lanyon commented He also proven that a bus removed from the scene registered to the younger suspect contained improvised explosive devices I also confirm that it contained two homemade ISIS flags Lanyon disclosed