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The Philippines Bureau of Immigration said connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) that the 2 alleged gunmen down the mass shooting astatine Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines connected November 1 aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR212 from Sydney to Manila and onward to Davao.
A spokesperson for the bureau said that Sajid Akram, 50, an Indian nationalist and Australian resident, travelled connected an Indian passport, portion his lad Naveed Akram, 24, an Australian national, utilized an Australian passport, arrived unneurotic connected the aforesaid flight.
They departed connected November 28 connected the aforesaid formation numbered, PR212, from Davao via Manila backmost to Sydney, weeks earlier the battle that killed 15 people.
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The onslaught connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) was Australia’s worst wide shooting successful astir 30 years, and is being investigated arsenic an enactment of coercion targeting the Jewish community.
It was not instantly wide what activities they undertook successful the Philippines oregon whether they travelled elsewhere aft landing successful Davao, a metropolis successful Mindanao, a portion wherever violent groups, including Islamic State successful Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-linked factions, person operated.
In 2017, Islamic State-inspired militants seized parts of the confederate metropolis of Marawi and held it done 5 months of crushed offensives and aerial strikes by the Military.
The siege of Marawi, the country’s biggest conflict since World War Two, displaced immoderate 3,50,000 residents and much than 1,100 radical were killed which are mostly militants.
While the Armed Forces of the Philippines is validating the reports, its spokesperson said successful a connection the Military is intimately coordinating with applicable agencies connected matters involving the movements of overseas nationals and imaginable violent ties.
