Bondi Beach

More recently, a bid to rent out part of Sydney's famous Bondi Beach to an exclusive beach club was met with a huge outcry.

Westfield Bondi Junction mall near world-famous Bondi Beach had opened Thursday, although shops inside were closed, for a “community reflection day.”

A candlelight vigil at nearby Bondi Beach is planned on Sunday evening to honor the victims.

In one instance, a lifeguard plucked a two-pound block out of the water off Bondi Beach in Sydney.

In a shopping centre near Bondi Beach, a man stabbed to death six people, five of them women, and injured a dozen more.