\u201cA bullet hit our building \u2013 I was watching from the window. It was crazy shit, absolute madness<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on the lounge and heard gunshots. I went to the window and thought: \u2018What the hell is going on?\u2019 A couple of neighbours below came out and then a bullet hit the building. We heard it and everyone on the balconies around us ducked down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought: \u2018Did I imagine that?\u2019 But we then spoke to other people in the building and they definitely heard it as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen one bullet whizzed past. We heard the whistle. I thought: \u2018Get down, get out of the way. Jesus Christ, this is unbelievable\u2019. The gun fire lasted ten minutes, it was non-stop. We got a message from the building (manager) saying that the building was in lockdown and: \u2018Do not leave, stay inside\u2019.<\/p>\n
Minichiello has lived in Bondi for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can actually see the footbridge (where the gunmen fired multiple shots) from my balcony but the gun shots were so loud that I didn\u2019t know where they were coming from. All I saw was people running towards south Bondi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
I thought it was a proper gun fight between bad people and then the bullet hit the building. I\u2019m still in shock to be honest. I was down there at lunchtime having a swim. I was by myself (his wife Terry and daughter were away) so thought I might go down for another swim but I watched a movie instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cBondi Beach is one of the most famous beaches in the world \u2026 a beautiful Sunday arvo, you don\u2019t think anything like this could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minichiello\u2019s brush with death came as Australian captain Pat Cummins urged Australians to donate blood, while security will be increased for the Adelaide Test, with South Australia Police Commissioner Grant Stevens confirming specially trained police would be deployed carrying stronger weapons.<\/p>\n
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Security will be increased at Adelaide Oval as Pat Cummins urged Australians to donate blood and Michael Vaughan said he was holed up in Bondi restaurant during the shooting.. Credit: The Nightly<\/p>\n
Cummins\u2019 plea came as it was revealed former English captain Michael Vaughan sheltered in a Bondi restaurant during the shooting,<\/p>\n
Preparations for Wednesday\u2019s third Ashes Test continued on Monday, albeit with the sadness of Sunday night\u2019s terror attack in Sydney hanging over Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas confirmed extra precautions were being taken to ensure Ashes spectators were safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the events that have occurred yesterday in Sydney, there will be additional protocols put in place at Adelaide Oval,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s Test team said they were \u201cdeeply saddened by the horrific events\u201d, and that they stood by the people of Sydney and the Jewish community.<\/p>\n
Nathan Lyon told reporters in Adelaide he was \u201cextremely saddened\u201d, adding nothing he could say \u201cwould make anyone feel better\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cummins, who lives with his young family in the nearby suburb of Waverley, said on Instagram he was \u201cabsolutely devastated by the horror last night in Bondi\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart goes out to the victims, their families, the people of Bondi and our Jewish community during this time,\u201d Cummins wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can, please book an appointment to donate blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Usman Khawaja expressed similar sentiments, writing in an Instagram story on Monday morning that he is \u201cpraying for the Jewish and Bondi community as a whole\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo room whatsoever for these hate crimes,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Vaughan, who is in Australia commentating on the Ashes, detailed when he knew something serious had happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never experienced anything like it,\u201d Vaughan wrote in his column for UK newspaper The Telegraph.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were having a drink in the Royal pub next door, and I was on the phone outside. The bouncer walked over with his hands in a gun sign and told me to get inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be so close that you can hear it happening is terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australia Red Cross Lifeblood has called for donations from across the country to help the wounded, with a desperate need for O-type donors.<\/p>\n
The NRL\u2019s Sydney Roosters and their AFL counterparts the Sydney Swans headlined the list of Australian sporting clubs to express sympathy and sadness.<\/p>\n
Players and staff from both teams are regulars at Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply shocked and shattered,\u201d Swans chief executive Matthew Pavlich said in a statement.\u201cTo our Jewish community, we are feeling for you and send our sincere condolences to all in your community. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families at this tragic time.\u201d<\/p>\n
AFL chair Richard Goyder and chief executive Andrew Dillon released a joint statement, describing it as \u201ca time to come together to grieve, to support one another, and to stand with our Jewish colleagues and friends\u201d.\u201cEvery person in our country has the right to celebrate their faith in peace and safety, including our Jewish community,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The Sydney Sixers, who were in Perth playing the opening BBL match, were given special access to their phones just before the match on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Under Cricket Australia\u2019s strict anti-corruption rules, players are forced to surrender their phones or have them locked away after arriving at the venue for a match.<\/p>\n
But in the wake of the tragic events at Bondi Beach, Sixers players were given permission to use their phones in order to check on family and friends.<\/p>\n
None of the Sixers players were directly affected and the team all took the field for Sunday\u2019s rain-delayed match, which the Scorchers won by five wickets with five balls to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters NRL premiership winner Anthony Minichiello has revealed how close he came to being one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,2733,588,85],"class_list":["post-349511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-nsw","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}