Naveed Akram, Sajid and Bondi Beach shooting
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Family members in India have gone to ground, neighbours are lying low and a misinformation campaign is raging online.
Indian police said on Tuesday that one of the two gunmen behind Australia's Bondi Beach mass shootings, Sajid Akram, was an Indian citizen who had left the country 27 years ago.
Telangana Police say Bondi Beach shooting suspect Sajid Akram left Hyderabad in 1998, had limited contact with family in India and lived in Australia for nearly three decades.
Officials said the father had been living in Australia since 1998, and that neither man appeared to have a criminal record before the mass shooting on Sunday
Sajid Akram was shot dead at the scene, while Naveed was arrested and remains under police guard in hospital with serious injuries.
An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday.