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New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told a press conference in Sydney on Monday morning, “The offenders are two men, a father and son, aged 50 and 24.”

Lanyon did not release their names but said the father was killed at the scene, while the son was wounded by police and taken to hospital in critical condition.

Twenty-four-year-old Naveed Akram was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital with serious injuries. His 50-year-old father, initially reported by the Sydney Morning Herald to be Sajid Akram, was shot dead by police.

In the shooting that occurred during a gathering to mark the first night of Hanukkah, 15 people were killed and dozens injured.

The son was known to New South Wales police and security services, while the father held a firearms licence with six registered weapons; police said all six firearms were seized.

Four of the weapons, including a rifle and a shotgun—both long guns—were recovered at the Bondi scene; the remaining weapons were found during a police raid at a home in Campsie, in Sydney’s southwest.

Lanyon said the men lived at another house in Bonnyrigg, in the city’s west, which was also raided on Sunday night.

He added there was “nothing to indicate that either of the men involved in yesterday’s attack planned it,” and confirmed the older man had held a firearms licence for ten years.