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The house one of two gunmen behind the Dec 14 Bondi Beach mass shooting in Hyderabad, India.

A house in Hyderabad of a relative of Sajid Akram, one of two gunmen behind the Dec 14 Bondi Beach mass shooting.

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Pragati K.B.

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Hyderabad is a city in southern India whose residents have long gone abroad searching for greater wealth and opportunity. But it has come under scrutiny after

one of its own

was named in connection with an atrocity far away.

Sajid Akram, who died while

attacking a Hanukkah celebration in Australia

on Dec 14, was born and grew up in a quiet Muslim neighbourhood here. He left almost three decades ago and seldom came back.

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