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Fifteen people, not including Sajid, were killed in the shooting, which NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Sunday night declared a terrorist attack. Dozens more were injured and taken to hospital, where they remain, for treatment. The oldest victim was 87.
A photo provided by the family of NSW Police Constable Scott Dyson, who remains in hospital after being injured responding to the Bondi Beach mass shooting.Credit: Dyson family
The youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, was on Monday remembered by her family as a “happy, bright” girl.
“I’m still kind of hoping it’s not true, but it seems like it’s true,” Matilda’s aunt, Lina, told this masthead.
“I will never see her smile again, only in my photographs.”
Matilda, whose surname has been withheld at the request of her family, had been playing with her six-year-old sister at a petting zoo moments before the shooting.
Two police officers, Constable Scott Dyson and Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert, were seriously injured in the shooting and remain in hospital. Images from Bondi on Sunday night show the windscreen of a police car riddled with bullet holes. Dyson has worked in the eastern suburbs command for 18 months, police said.
In a statement on Monday night, the families of the injured officers thanked first responders who “acted with courage, in particular the police officers and paramedics” and hospital staff, and offered their thoughts to the families and friends of victims injured and killed in the shooting.
More coverage on the Bondi terror attack
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- The victims: 10-year-old Matilda is the youngest victim. What we know about the Bondi terror victims so far
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