Gunmen opened fire on a crowd of around 2,000 Jews gathered at a park next to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach as the ceremony to light the first Hanukkah candle on a public menorah was about to commence Sunday evening. According to eye-witnesses three gunmen firing rifles aimed into the crowd firing a total of more than 50 rounds, leaving twelve dead at the scene with another 50 wounded later brought to hospital.

Australian Federal Police and the country’s intelligence agency labeled the massacre a terrorist attack within 3 hours of the mass shooting.

Cell phone video shows a passer-by disarming one attacker at the base of a large palm tree lining the parking lot adjacent to the park. Another man pursued the disarmed attacker and threw what looking like a large stone at him. A second attacker on a pedestrian walkway leading from the park to a pub and restaurant section of North Bondi appeared to fire at the two passers-by and in the general direction of the Hanukkah celebration.

AFP told a press conference they had no evidence of a third shooter beyond eye-witness accounts but were looking into a possible third shooter. A car at the scene was found to contain mulptiple home-made explosive devices. Footage from the cell phone and a name released later by police seem to show the attackers were Middle Eastern, perhaps Arab or Lebanese.

Ravvi Eli Schwanger of Sydney was killed at the scene. He leaves hejind five children. One eye-witness said a child was murdered, but New South Wales Police said they had no such information, and that one child wounded in the attack was taken to hospital.