{"id":75702,"date":"2025-12-21T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/22\/troubling-memories-resurface-in-davao-as-authorities-trace-bondi-shooting-suspects-movements-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:00:05","slug":"troubling-memories-resurface-in-davao-as-authorities-trace-bondi-shooting-suspects-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75702","title":{"rendered":"Troubling memories resurface in Davao as authorities trace Bondi shooting suspects\u2019 movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many residents believe alleged gunmen were in Mindanao for \u2018tourism, not terrorism\u2019 and say extremist groups in area have been significantly weakened<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/16\/bondi-terror-attack-victims-what-we-know-so-far\">Victims of Bondi beach shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/video\/2025\/dec\/17\/ten-minutes-of-terror-how-the-bondi-mass-shooting-unfolded-in-real-time-video\">Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time \u2013 video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was the scariest moment of his life. In September 2016 Gerry Pendon was a mere five metres away from a bomb explosion at the Roxas night market in Davao City. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/sep\/02\/deadly-blast-philippines-night-market-davao\">Islamic State attack killed 15<\/a>, including his brother-in-law. A five-month battle between the military and the jihadist group in Marawi City followed.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years later, the shadow of IS again looms over one of the Philippines\u2019 major cities, amid international scrutiny over the four-week stay in the city of the alleged Bondi beach shooters, Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/22\/troubling-memories-resurface-in-davao-as-authorities-trace-bondi-shooting-suspects-movements-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many residents believe alleged gunmen were in Mindanao for \u2018tourism, not terrorism\u2019 and say extremist groups in area have been significantly weakenedVictims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,3469,471,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bondi-beach-terror-attack","category-islamic-state","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75703,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75702\/revisions\/75703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}