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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Bondi Beach attacker’s family in India ‘had no knowledge of his radicalisation’, police say

The Indian family of one of the two Bondi Beach shooters have told police that they had “limited contact” with him after he emigrated to Australia, and that they were unaware of his apparent radicalisation.

Sajid Akram, 50, who was killed by police during the shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney on Sunday, had moved to Australia in 1998 and rarely visited his family back in the southern Indian state of Telangana, police said.

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