Sajid Akram, the 50-year-old man who alongside along with his son gunned down 15 folks at Australia’s well-known Bondi Seaside on Sunday, and died throughout altercation with police, was initially from Hyderabad, stated Telangana police on Tuesday.
Telangana police stated that Sajid Akram had migrated to Australia 27 years in the past and “had restricted contact” along with his household in Hyderabad.
Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed, 24, had opened fireplace with rifles at a Hanukkah occasion on Bondi Seaside on Sunday, killing 15 folks. The loss of life toll within the mass taking pictures, which is being termed as one among Australia’s deadliest terrorist assaults, rose to 16 as Sajid was killed throughout an trade of fireplace with the police after the incident. In the meantime, his son, Naveed, is in a crucial situation and receiving therapy at a hospital underneath police guard.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had described the taking pictures as a “focused assault” on Jewish Australians and “an act of evil, antisemitism, terrorism that has struck the center of our nation”.
Police additional stated that the components that led to the radicalisation of Sajid Akram, his son, “seem to don’t have any reference to India or any native affect in Telangana”.
Sajid visited India six occasions after migrating to Australia, Reuters reported, citing police, who added that his household “has no data of his ‘radical mindset’”.
Cops additionally stated they don’t have any file of Sajid Akram earlier than he left India. Authorities stated they may cooperate with federal companies and different counterparts as required within the probe into the Bondi Seaside taking pictures.
Earlier within the day, the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration confirmed that Sajid Akram was an Indian nationwide and had visited the nation in November, HT reported earlier.
Dana Sandoval, a spokesperson for the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration, stated, “Sajid Akram, 50, Indian nationwide (Australian resident), and Naveed Akram, 24, Australian nationwide, arrived within the Philippines collectively final November 1, 2025 from Sydney, Australia.”
She added, “Each reported Davao as their ultimate vacation spot. They left the nation on November 28, 2025 on a connecting flight from Davao to Manila, with Sydney as their ultimate vacation spot.”
Sajid Akram’s household was reportedly shocked by the information of the Bondi Seaside taking pictures and had not been in contact with him for a few years, The Information Minute reported. His brother, who lives in Hyderabad, informed the information outlet that “…Sajid had left Hyderabad for Australia greater than 25 years in the past and later married a Christian, after which the household lower ties with him”.
Sajid’s ties have been reportedly severed along with his household after he married a Christian.
The TNM report additional talked about, “A supply within the authorities stated that Sajid’s father, after getting back from Saudi Arabia a few years in the past, purchased an house in Hyderabad. Round this time, Sajid left for Australia in 1998 on a pupil visa. Indian companies have present in a preliminary probe that Sajid got here to Hyderabad a number of years in the past and the brothers had a fallout over property. Sajid’s different members of the family in Hyderabad may even be questioned.”
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