Police: Beach attack planned for months

MELBOURNE - A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside Sydney with his father, according to Australian police documents released on Monday.

- BY ROD MCGUIRE

A MOURNER lights a candle at a memorial near the shooting site in Sydney.

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The documents, made public following Naveed Akram's video court appearance from a Sydney hospital where he has been treated for an abdominal injury, said the two men recorded video justifying the meticulously planned attack.

Officers wounded Akram at the scene of the Dec. 14 shooting and killed his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram.

The state government confirmed Naveed Akram was transferred Monday from a hospital to a prison. Authorities identified neither facility.

The 24-year-old and his father began their attack by throwing four improvised explosive devices toward a crowd celebrating an annual Jewish event at Bondi Beach, but the devices failed to explode, the documents said.

Police described the devices as three aluminum pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, gunpowder and steel ball bearings. None detonated, but police described them as "viable" IEDs.