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Ten-year-old girl, London-born rabbi and Holocaust survivor: The victims of 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. Follow live coverage of the shooting The 10-year-old girl who died in hospital following the attack has been named as Matilda by her aunt.

She was a former student at Harmony Russian School of Sydney. In a post on GoFundMe to raise money to support her family, she was described as a "bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to those around her".

Read more:What we know so far about Bondi Beach shooting French President Emmanuel Macron announced a French citizen, Dan Elkayam, was among those killed. Larisa Kleytman told reporters outside St Vincent's Hospital her husband, Alexander Kleytman, was among the dead, according to The Australian newspaper.

The couple were both Holocaust survivors. 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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