Dashcam footage shows bystanders\u2019 attempts to prevent Bondi attackpublished at 11:12 GMT<\/p>\n
11:12 GMT<\/p>\n
Shayan Sardarizadeh, Benedict Garman and Paul Brown
BBC Verify<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
BBC Monitoring’s jihadist media correspondent Mina al-Lami has identified the flag as the \u201cUqab\u201d banner, which is most commonly associated with Muslim jihadist groups, particularly the so-called Islamic State group (IS).<\/p>\n
We have detected no signs of AI manipulation in the footage. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The video below contains distressing content.<\/p>\n
Media caption, <\/p>\n
Distressing content: Dashcam video shows couple tackle attacker<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dashcam footage shows bystanders\u2019 attempts to prevent Bondi attackpublished at 11:12 GMT 11:12 GMT Shayan Sardarizadeh, Benedict Garman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-351801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351801","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=351801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}