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.

Investigators are probing a trip the father and son alleged to have carried out the attack took to the Philippines. The Sydney Opera House was lit up with a menorah overnight in a message of support and solidarity to the Australian Jewish community.

The death toll of the horrific Bondi terror attack has risen to at least 16 people, including a 10-year-old schoolgirl, with fears the number of victims will continue to grow. Sky News Australia has rolling coverage of the tragedy.

The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, and they recently traveled to a part of the Philippines – which has previously been a hotbed of Islamic extremism.

The father and son suspects in the terror attack on Jewish people gathered for a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach, Australia, spent most of November in the Philippines, police said Tuesday. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said,

The Philippines Bureau ‌of ​Immigration said on Tuesday ‌that the two alleged gunmen behind the mass shooting ​at Sydney's Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines on November 1 ‍aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR212 ​from Sydney to Manila and onward to Davao.

Sunday's deadly attack at Bondi Beach appears to have been "motivated by Islamic State ideology", says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.