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London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among 15 killed in Bondi terror attack
A London-born rabbi and a 10-year-old girl are among 15 innocent people killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack.
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, died when two gunmen - a father and son - targeted a Hanukkah celebration at a park next to the beach on the first day of the Jewish festival of lights on Sunday evening. One of the attackers, a 50-year-old man, was killed along with 15 innocent people, aged between 10 and 87 years old.
The other gunman, who has been named as 24-year-old Naveed Akram, is in a critical condition, police said. A 10-year-old girl died in hospital following the attack, while Israel's foreign ministry has said one of the country's citizens is also among the dead.
Follow live: 15 people and gunman killed at event celebrating Hanukkah Mr Schlanger was assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi, a Jewish cultural centre. His cousin, Rabbi Dovid Lewis, of the South Manchester Synagogue, told Sky News their great-uncle, the late Reverend Leslie Olsberg, served as a rabbi at the Heaton Park Synagogue in the city, where two people were killed in a terror attack on 2 October.
He said his cousin had "dedicated his life to adding light and to spreading Torah and Judaism" and in the wake of the Manchester attack sent a post on social media saying: "We will respond with light." "There's a feeling of numbness, but there's also a feeling he lived," he said. "I'm not going to wallow in pity, I'm going to do something in his memory." He said his cousin "lit a light.
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