The two gunmen behind the deadly shooting at a Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach were a father and son from Pakistan, CBS News quoted US intelligence officials as saying.
Naveed Akram identified as alleged shooter seen firing from bridge, with reports his father Sajid was shot dead by police.
The pair allegedly killed 15 people, with dozens more injured in the shootings which took place on Sunday, during a gathering to celebrate the first night of Hanukah.
The son was known to New South Wales police and other agencies, while his father had a firearms licence with six weapons registered to him, authorities confirmed on Monday. All six have been recovered, police said.
At least three of these weapons, long arms believed to include a rifle and shotgun, were seized at the scene in Bondi, with other weapons also found during a police raid at a house in Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west.
The police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, said the men had lived at another house in Bonnyrigg, in the city’s west, which was also raided on Sunday night.
Lanyon said there was nothing “to indicate that either of the men involved in yesterday’s attack was planning the attack”, and confirmed the older man had held a gun licence for a decade.
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