Police and local media reports said the shooting began while some people were attending a Hanukkah party on the beach. At least 40 people were hospitalized.

A Holocaust survivor, a 10-year-old and a Chabad rabbi were among the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday. Hundreds of people had gathered to mark the first day of the Jewish festival before the attackers struck at the event in Sydney.

Fifteen people - including a 10-year-old girl and a British-born rabbi - were killed when two gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event.

Police said around 1,000 people had attended the Jewish celebration, which was held in a small park off the beach.

New South Wales Police said emergency services were called to Campbell Parade, the road that runs along Bondi Beach, just before 7 p.m. local time, to reports of a shooting.

A bystander, identified by 7NEWS Australia as Ahmed al Ahmed, seen disarming a gunman at Sydney's Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah event is being heralded as a hero.

Dozens of people lined up early on Tuesday at Sydney's Bondi Beach to pay tribute to the 15 victims and those wounded in Sunday's Hannukah festival shootings, Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years.

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