Australia announces gun buyback as swimmers mourn Bondi shooting victims

SYDNEY: Australia will use a sweeping buyback scheme to “get guns off our streets,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday as hundreds plunged into the ocean to honor Bondi Beach shooting victims. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed are accused of opening fire on a Jewish festival at the famed surf beach on Sunday, killing 15 people in one of Australia’s deadliest mass shootings. Albanese vowed to toughen laws that allowed 50-year-old Sajid to own six high-powered rifles. “There is no reason someone living in the suburbs of Sydney needed this many guns,” he said.

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