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Awesome bravery amid the bullets on Bondi Beach: A year after the massacre of men, women and children celebrating a Jewish festival by the ocean in Sydney, survivors recall the desperate battle for survival for the first time
Survivors of the Bondi Beach shooting have described the terror and split-second acts of courage during an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah gathering in Sydney. Their accounts, shared ahead of the first anniversary, show how an afternoon family celebration became a mass shooting and the decisions people made to protect themselves and others.
On 14 December, two gunmen opened fire from a footbridge overlooking the event at Archer Park. The article says 15 people were killed during the attack, including a ten-year-old girl, and that 90-year-old survivor Eva Geller later died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 16; hundreds were gathered at the event.
In short
- Survivors recount the Bondi Beach shooting ahead of its first anniversary.
- Two gunmen killed 15 people during the attack.
- Eva Geller later died, bringing the toll to 16.