SYDNEY, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The surviving alleged perpetrator of the fatal mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach had been charged with 59 offenses, police said on Wednesday.
The police force in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Wednesday afternoon charged 24-year-old Naveed Akram with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act, following the attack that targeted an event celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
Akram remained in hospital under police guard on Wednesday after waking from a coma on Tuesday. ■