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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Indian police say Bondi Hanukkah terrorist Sajid Akram was originally from Hyderabad
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Sajid Akram, the father who carried out the Bondi Hanukkah terror attack, in an image taken from a video obtained by Sky News on December 14, 2025. (Screen grab/Sky News)
Indian police say that Sajid Akram, one of the terrorists who carried out the deadly terror attack at a Hanukkah event in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, was originally from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad but had limited contact with his family in India.
“The family members have expressed no knowledge of his radical mindset or activities, nor of the circumstances that led to his radicalization,” Telangana state police say in a statement.
Akram and his son killed 15 people and injured dozens more in the massacre. He was killed while carrying out the attack.
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