The death toll in the massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in Australia has risen to 15, an Australian minister says.
New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park is cited by the Sydney Morning Herald saying that 16 people have died, including a child who died of their wounds in a hospital. The figure includes one of the gunmen who was killed in the incident.
Earlier, a Jewish community leader said that the victims included a 12-year-old girl who had succumbed to her wounds.
Earlier, the death toll had stood at 11 victims and one of the perpetrators.
“This is absolutely horrendous for the community broadly, but particularly the Jewish community, but for Australians,” Park says on Nine’s Today show, according to the news outlet.
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