Naveed Akram and his father, Sajid Akram, opened fire at a Hanukkah event gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney over the weekend.

On this episode of South, India Today’s Nagarjun Dwarakanath tracks the Hyderabad connection to the Sydney Bondi Beach shooting. The Telangana Police have confirmed that the attacker, Sajid Akram, hailed from Tolichowki.

Hyderabad: Sajid Akram, one of the two terrorists who killed 15 people in a gruesome mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, recently, hailed from Hyderabad, the Telangana police said

Sajid and Naveed Akram returned to Sydney from Davao just around two weeks before the deadly mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14.

Telangana Police say Bondi Beach shooting suspect Sajid Akram left Hyderabad in 1998, had limited contact with family in India and lived in Australia for nearly three decades.

One of the men allegedly involved in Sunday's terrorist attack at the famous Bondi Beach in Australia has been tentatively identified by investigators as Naveed Akram.

New details show Sydney attack suspect Sajid Akram was Indian, as officials dismiss claims linking the Bondi Beach attack to Pakistan.

The shooting occurred on Sunday evening at Bondi Beach while a Hanukkah gathering was underway. Australian authorities said Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, opened fire using rifles, killing at least 15 people and injuring 42 others.

Naveed Akram, the surviving suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act, according to the New South Wales local court. The other gunman, his father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene.

Akram was originally from Hyderabad but had limited contact with his family in India, Telangana police said.