Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: the fifteenth of December. We had a podcast planned for
Speaker 1: you this morning, which we had written, recorded and scheduled
Speaker 1: to land in your feed. But then on Sunday evening,
Speaker 1: gunman opened fire at Sydney's Bondai Beach, where a Jewish
Speaker 1: community event was being held to mark the beginning of Hanukkah.
Speaker 1: At least twelve people, including one of the alleged shooters,
Speaker 1: were killed at the scene and twenty nine people were
Speaker 1: taken to hospital. We're going to be back this evening
Speaker 1: and tomorrow morning with more details from the shooting as
Speaker 1: they come to us. For now, we wanted to bring
Speaker 1: you a short rap of what we know so far.
Speaker 1: As previously mentioned, we know that on Sunday evening, as
Speaker 1: Jewish community members gathered at the northern end of Sydney's
Speaker 1: Bondai Beach, two gunmen opened fire. Speaking at a press
Speaker 1: conference on Sunday, Premier Chris Mins said the attack was
Speaker 1: designed to target Sydney's Jewish community. State Police Commissioner mal
Speaker 1: Lanyon confirmed police are treating it as a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: He said one of the suspected gunmen is dead and
Speaker 1: the other is in custody. Lanyon added that police are
Speaker 1: investigating the weapons use, as well as a vehicle in
Speaker 1: Bondai suspected to have improvised bombs inside. After Minns spoke,
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi spoke to media from Parliament House
Speaker 1: in Canberra, where he said he'd just come from a
Speaker 1: meeting of the National Security Committee, a group of senior
Speaker 1: cabinet ministers. He said federal authorities also consider this a
Speaker 1: terrorist attack, calling it an act of evil anti Semitism.
Speaker 1: Albinizi also mentioned the bravery of civilians on the ground
Speaker 1: in Bondai, including the man whose social media footage shows
Speaker 1: disarming one of the gunmen. That's all we know so far.
Speaker 1: In the coming hours and days, there will be a
Speaker 1: lot of information flying around. Some of it will be true,
Speaker 1: some of it will be false. Our job and our
Speaker 1: commitment to you at TDA is that we will only
Speaker 1: publish updates on this story when we are confident in
Speaker 1: the information we're seeing from primary sources we talk to
Speaker 1: or hear from ourselves. You'll hear from us again with
Speaker 1: the headlines this afternoon. Until then, take care of yourself.
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