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The twisted Bondi Beach terrorists who slaughtered 15 people in Australia’s worst mass shooting in decades had bombs and homemade ISIS flags stashed in their car, police revealed Tuesday.
The father-and-son suspects, Sajid and Naveed Akram, unleashed “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State” on the Jewish community Sunday, Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.
Investigators found improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and at least two black ISIS flags in a car at the scene registered to the young Akram.
Both men had traveled to areas in the Philippines where Islamic state-linked networks are known to operate just weeks before the massacre, police also confirmed.
Even so, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese downplayed the links, claiming there was no evidence the killers were part of an organized terror cell.
“The clear advice that we have at this point is there’s no evidence of collusion, there’s no evidence that these people were part of a cell. Clearly, they were motivated by this extremist ideology,” Albanese told Australia’s ABC network.
“There may well be further information coming to light, but it would appear that these two have acted alone, driven though by this evil ideology.”
The details emerged after the pair fired upon hundreds of people during a 10-minute killing spree at a Hanukkah celebration at the famed beach.
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The elder Akram, 50, was fatally shot by police. His 24-year-old son was being treated at a hospital.
The massacre left 15 victims dead and dozens more injured.
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