Investigation into Bondi Beach shooting reveals details of 'meticulously' planned attack

In Australia, the investigation into Sydney’s Bondi Beach shooting is revealing the details of a meticulously planned operation. The assault killed 15 people in a Jewish Hanukkah celebration.

Police said the two alleged assailants, Sajid and Naveed Akram, began their attack by throwing four improvised explosive devices toward the crowd, according to court documents released on Monday.

Police described the devices as three aluminium pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, gunpowder and steel ball bearings. They all failed to explode but law enforcement called them “viable” IEDs.

Documents also revealed that the two alleged gunmen, a father and a son, conducted firearms training in a rural area of New South Wales state in October.

Police said a video found on Naveed Akram's phone shows him with his father expressing “their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack.”

The men are seen in the video “condemning the acts of Zionists” while they also “adhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to Islamic State,” police said.

“There is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months,” police argued.

Officers killed alleged shooter Sajid Akram, 50, at the scene of the shooting.

Authorities have charged his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder and 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder in relation to the wounded survivors and one count of committing a terrorist act.

The antisemitic attack at the start of the eight-day Hanukkah celebration was Australia's worst mass shooting since 1996.