Bondi beach gunmen shot 11 people within 30 seconds of opening fire, royal commission hears

Commission also told NSW police declined to provide static police presence at Hanukah by the Sea but four officers at event when attack began

Within 30 seconds of opening fire at Bondi beach on 14 December, two gunmen targeting Jewish Australians had shot 11 people, killing 10 of them, the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion has heard.

The second block of public hearings opened in Sydney on Monday morning, taking evidence about what was known about the two shooters.

The Jewish organisation, the Community Security Group, asked NSW police to provide a static police presence at the Hanukah by the Sea event for the entirety of the celebration;

NSW police declined to provide a static police presence for the entire event, instead allocating a “mobile tasking, that is police officers were instructed to attend the event from time to time during the evening”;

At the time the two gunmen opened fire on Jewish community members, there were four police at Archer Park;

Within 29 seconds of the start of the shooting, eleven people had been shot, 10 of them fatally;

Three police officers were shot and injured in the court of the attack;

Within five minutes, there were 11 police officers on the scene;

The first shooter was shot and killed and the second shooter was shot and apprehended within seven minutes and 41 seconds after the start of the shooting.

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