Dashcam footage shows bystanders’ attempts to prevent Bondi attackpublished at 11:12 GMT
11:12 GMT
Shayan Sardarizadeh, Benedict Garman and Paul Brown
BBC Verify
We’ve been looking at new dashcam footage showing the early stages of Sunday’s attack on a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
The video is filmed from a moving vehicle and shows a man in a purple shirt confronting one of the attackers, identified as Sajid Akram, next to a Hyundai Elantra hatchback and wrestling a firearm from him. Another bystander appears to be involved.
As the filming car passes, the shot switches to a rear view dashcam and we see a black and white flag draped across the windscreen of the Hyundai. The man in the purple shirt is still holding the weapon at this point.
BBC Monitoring’s jihadist media correspondent Mina al-Lami has identified the flag as the “Uqab” banner, which is most commonly associated with Muslim jihadist groups, particularly the so-called Islamic State group (IS).
We have detected no signs of AI manipulation in the footage.
At the very end of the clip, we see the man in the purple shirt being shot, which was also captured in a longer video showing the majority of the attack as it unfolded.
The video below contains distressing content.
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Distressing content: Dashcam video shows couple tackle attacker
The footage then switches to a final aerial shot showing the bodies of the two bystanders lying next to the car. Australian media have identified them as Boris and Sofia Gurman.
We’ve been in touch with the person who uploaded the dashcam footage, who said in a social media post the media had “not fully reported on this courage” demonstrated by the couple.