Bondi beach shooting live updates: details of victims emerge after terror attack at Jewish festival kills 11 people and injures 29

One gunman was also killed and another wounded; two police officers among the injured taken to hospitalAustralian leaders and police have been swift to label the shooting an antisemitic terrorist attack.“This attack was designed to target Sydney’s Jewish community,” said New South Wales state premier Chris Minns.London-born rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, has been named as one of the victims, Jewish News reports. The father-of-five, who was assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi, a Jewish cultural centre, grew up in Temple Fortune, north London. His first cousin, Brighton-based Rabbi Zalman Lewis, told Jewish News: “How can a joyful rabbi who went to a beach to spread happiness and light, to make the world a better place, have his life ended in this way?”One Israeli citizen was among those killed, the Israeli foreign ministry said. It did not name the victim.The Jerusalem Post reported that one of its contributors, Arsen Ostrovsky, head of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council Sydney office, was wounded in the attack. Continue reading...