Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett says a mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State.

At least 15 people are dead after a mass shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday. Follow live updates.

GoFundMe has launched a centralised hub of verified fundraisers for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Australia's deadliest such attack in 30 years. Sixteen people were killed in the shooting, including one of the two gunmen, while over 40 more were injured.

New South Wales Police said emergency services were called to Campbell Parade, the road that runs along Bondi Beach, just before 7 p.m. local time, to reports of a shooting.

The victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach range from a 10-year-old girl with a gentle soul to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Family and friends say Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who helped plan the targeted Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach, was among the 15 people killed.

For many, official promises to stamp out the “evil scourge” of antisemitism and consider further tightening gun control measures come too late.

Three decades ago, almost 650,000 firearms − about one-third of all privately owned guns in Australia – were surrendered, loaded intro trucks and destroyed. In exchange for these firearms, part of a mandatory gun buyback program, the government paid out $200 million. Gun-related murder and suicide rates plummeted.