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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker

Police officers amid crowds of mourners in Bondi yesterday.
Police officers amid crowds of mourners in Bondi yesterday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

A Pakistani man living in Australia has spoken of his “deep trauma” and said his life had become a “nightmare” after his photo was widely circulated on social media falsely labelling him as one of the shooters in the Bondi beach terror attack.

Naveed Akram, 30, who runs his own business in New South Wales, found himself at the centre of a storm of misinformation that began to spread following the deadly shooting on Sydney’s Bondi beach that left 16 people dead.

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