SYDNEY ¨C The leader of the Australian state of New South Wales said on Wednesday he will recall parliament next week to pass wide-ranging reforms of gun and protest laws, days after the country¡¯s deadliest mass shooting in three decades.
The alleged father-and-son perpetrators opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney¡¯s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, in an attack that shook the nation and intensified fears of rising antisemitism and violent extremism.
Funerals of the Jewish victims of Sunday¡¯s attack began on Wednesday, amid anger over how the gunmen ¡ª one of whom was briefly investigated for links to extremists ¡ª were allowed access to powerful firearms.
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