Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited a Sydney hospital where he met a man who disarmed an apparent gunman during Sunday's mass shooting in Bondi.

The funerals began as a country reeling from its deadliest hate-fueled massacre of modern times turned to searching questions, growing in volume since the attack, about how it was able to happen.

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.

The attack occurred on Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration.

The Republican urged that all nations must stand together against the evil forces of radical Islamic terrorism

Although Snopes could not locate footage of the full news conference, we found no evidence that a video clip of Schumer's remarks was edited. During the same event, Schumer spoke in greater detail about the shootings in Australia and at Brown University.

Police officers and members of the public scuffled on a bridge near two neutralised suspects after a shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney's Bondi Beach.

The strict firearms laws Australia instituted three decades ago have been cited as a model for effective gun control. Provoked by a mass shooting in 1996, they’ve been credited with making such episodes a rarity in the country.