Family members in India have gone to ground, neighbours are lying low and a misinformation campaign is raging online.

Indian police said on Tuesday that one of the two gunmen behind Australia's Bondi Beach mass shootings, Sajid Akram, was an Indian citizen who had left the country 27 years ago.

The alleged gunman in the horror Bondi Beach terror attack that claimed the lives of 15 people and injured dozens more has emerged from a coma. Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, allegedly opened fire on people gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event, marking the first night of Hanukkah, at Bondi about 6.40pm on Sunday.

Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24, carried out the attack during a public Hanukkah celebration. Fifteen members of the public were killed, along with Naveed Akram. Investigators in Australia have said the pair were inspired by ISIS ideology.

Two days after two gunmen shot dead 15 people at Hanukkah celebrations on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the Telangana Police said that the shooters have been identified as Sajid Akram, 50, and his son, Naveed Akram, 24.

Sajid Akram was shot dead during an encounter with police, taking the death toll to 16, while Naveed remains hospitalised under police guard.

One of the alleged terrorists in Bondi’s terror attack was originally from India and had travelled back to his native country six times since migrating to Australia.

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Fifteen people were killed and another 42 were injured when Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram, 24, opened fire with rifles on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach