AT AUSTRALIA'S BONDI BEACH Father, son gunmen kill 15 at Jewish fest

A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Australia's Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people, including a child, authorities said on Monday, denouncing the attack as antisemitic "terrorism.

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The pair fired into crowds packing the world-famous Sydney beach for the start of Hanukkah on Sunday evening, sending people fleeing in panic.

A 10-year-old girl was among those killed in Australia's worst mass shooting for almost three decades. Another 42 people were rushed to hospitals with gunshot wounds and other injuries.

Police are still unravelling what drove the shootings, although authorities have said the plot was clearly designed to sow terror among the nation's Jews.

"What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism on our shores," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said before laying flowers at the Bondi Pavilion.