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This Timeline of the Bondi Beach shooting, which occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia 14 December 2025, uses AEDT (UTC+11).

October 20

The suspects book a room at an AirBNB in southwest Sydney suburb of Campsie.^[1]

12 December 2025

TBD — CCTV evening footage of the suspects at the site of the attack two days beforehand; police allege recon.^[2]

14 December

17:00 Start of Chanuka by the Sea 2025.^[3] More than a thousand attend.^[4]

~17:09 —CCTV of the father and son leave an AirBNB on 103 Brighton Ave.^[5] Campsie in their 2001 silver Hyundai Elantra^[1] for the 45-minute drive from Bondi Beach. Wrapped in blankets are two single barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, four IEDs and two ISIS flags.^[2]

17:58 —Car stops on Ocean Street in Woollahra^[6] for 19 minutes.^[2]

18:25 —Car seen on Old South Head Rd.^[2]

18:50 — Car parks on Campbell Parade on Bondi Beach.^[2]

18:47 — The attack begins. It is to last for seven minutes.^[7] First call to Emergency Services.^[8][9]

TBD — Surfcam coverage of fleeing beachgoers.

18:57 — New South Wales Police release a statement confirming that an incident is being responded to, and urge the public to avoid the area.^[10]

19:00-19:15 — Numerous helicopters and sirens, much louder than usual.^[9]

~19:08 — Ambulance crew arrive within ten minutes (ultimately more than 123 personnel). 24 patients are transported to hospital; 14 deceased are attended to. Two of the hospitalized later die. A total of 42 people present themselves at hospital.^[11]

TBD — Drone footage of the two gunmen on the footbridge.^[12] A 17-second clip
(provenance unknown, released by the BBC, either from the same video or another) shows one gunman. Other video released by the BBC (again either from the same video another) shows both gunmen.^{[citation needed]} (It also releases a 21-second minute-by-minute account which includes yet more video of the attack, as well as its immediate immediate aftermath.)^[13]

TBD — A nearly continuous 11-minute video shot from some 50 m away begins with one gunman on the pedestrian bridge between Campbell Parade and Archer Park; both begin sustained fire. A police car passes within the first 22 seconds of footage; slightly more than four minutes later, first fire from police targeting the terrorists begins. Approximately 30 seconds later the gunman wearing white trousers is hit and collapses; the second is felled about a minute later. ^[14] The BBC releases a 23-second clip (of the same or another video) from the car park of both men firing; police sirens can be heard.^[15]

21:36 — Police Commissioner of New South Wales Mal Lanyon officially declares a terrorist incident.^[16][9]

19:39^[7] — Properties at the Sydney suburbs of Campsie and Bonnyrigg are searched by police overnight; a man and a woman are taken into custody at the latter.^[11] The two gunmen had lived at Bonnyrig,^[17] and had stayed in an AirBNB rental^[18] in Campsie^[19] for two days before the attack.

15 December

06:15 — The number is deaths is now given as 16 (including the elder terrorist); 42 people are still in hospital.^[7]

07:56 — It is revealed that two Islamic State flags were found in the gunmens’ car.^[2]

17:36 — The terrorists are identified; they are believed by counter-terrorist officials to have had proclaimed allegiance to the Islamic State.^[7]

18:05 — 27 people remain in hospital, six in critical condition.^[20]

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