Australia mourns Bondi Beach shooting victims
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Police intercepted two vehicles in a Sydney suburb based on "information received that a violent act was possibly being planned."
Australian and Filipino authorities are investigating a recent trip to the southern Philippines by a father and son accused of gunning down 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
The first funeral for one of the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting has taken place in Sydney, with thousands gathering to mourn Rabbi Eli Schlanger. He was among 15 people killed when two gunmen, alleged to have been motivated by Islamic State ideology, opened fire on a festival marking the first day of Hanukkah.
Hundreds of mourners gathered in a Bondi synagogue for the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger on Wednesday, a few blocks away from the beach where he was gunned down, one of the first of many services for the Hanukkah festival shooting victims.