The Philippines Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) that the two alleged gunmen behind the mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines on November 1 aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR212 from Sydney to Manila and onward to Davao.
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A spokesperson for the bureau said that Sajid Akram, 50, an Indian national and Australian resident, travelled on an Indian passport, while his son Naveed Akram, 24, an Australian national, used an Australian passport, arrived together on the same flight.
They departed on November 28 on the same flight numbered, PR212, from Davao via Manila back to Sydney, weeks before the assault that killed 15 people.
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