25-Year-Old Accused Of Australia’s Deadliest Terror Attack Regained Consciousness, Arrested

17th December 2025 at 11:51 AM

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Sydney : Naveed Akram, the 25-year-old Bondi Beach shooter, came out of coma, and was arrested at bedside by police in Australia. Detectives were waiting for him to be mentally oriented to understand the procedures before moving ahead legally. Sajid Akram, 50, was originally from Hyderabad and had migrated from India in 1998. He had limited contact with his family in India and had visited the country just six times in 27 years. He married a European Christian woman with whom he had Naveed and a daughter, both born in Australia.

While Sajid Akram was killed in police counterfire, Naveed was shot and had gone into a comatose state. He emerged from coma on Tuesday afternoon (local time), according to Australian media outlets. He regained consciousness only to find detectives waiting to arrest him at his bedside, reported news.com.au. News.co.au reported that as soon as Naveed regained consciousness, he was deemed lucid by doctors and was entered into the custody system and placed under arrest.

Once he was conscious and we were at a stage where doctors could withdraw his medicine to such an extent that his doctors were satisfied he had cognitive function and was fit to understand the process we were able to caution and arrest him,” New South Wales (NSW) Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told news.com.au.

The Philippines, especially its south, has been the hub of extremist clerics and Islamist terrorist groups. Several armed Islamist outfits there have owed their allegiance to the IS. The father-son duo travelled to the Philippines to receive “military-style training”, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). They reached the Philippines in early November. Naveed and Sajid Akram then journeyed to the southern Philippines and underwent militant training,” a senior counter-terrorism official told the ABC, on condition of anonymity.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Bondi Beach attack was driven by “Islamic State ideology”. Police recovered two homemade IS flags apart from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from a vehicle registered in Naveed’s name from near the beach soon after the attack. Naveed, who was born in Australia, had come under the scanner of Australian security agencies for suspected IS ties in 2019, but was reportedly let off unmonitored.