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The parents of 10-year-old Matilda - the youngest of the Bondi shooting victims - recounted the moments leading up to the attack that took their daughter's life on Sunday (Dec 14), saying that they thought the shots were "fireworks" and a "bad joke."

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00:01Mourners gathered at the Bondi Pavilion forecourt on Tuesday to commemorate the victims of the recent massacre.
00:08The gathering included the parents of 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest of those killed in the attack.
00:14They recounted the moments before the attack that killed their daughter on Sunday,
00:18saying they initially thought the gunshots were fireworks or a bad joke.
00:22Like she's running around happy and then second what I see before my eyes is she's lying on the ground and I just can't explain how it happened.
00:38We heard some like the shots but we thought maybe it's just someone decided just a bad joke like you know.
00:49Or fireworks or something.
00:52And my first reaction was who can do that next to this event.
01:01Because all Jewish communities traumatized by the sound.
01:06I wrapped my shirt and I was talking to her because she was telling me that it's hard to breathe.
01:18I was holding her and I was like, calm down, please, please, please.
01:24I was trying to pull her out but the shooting would just not stop.
01:30Matilda died in hospital on Sunday after being shot during the Bondi attack,
01:34just moments after playing with animals at a petting zoo.
01:37Health authorities said on Wednesday that 22 patients were receiving treatment in several Sydney hospitals.
01:43The death toll stands at 16, including one of the gunmen, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was shot dead by police at the scene.
01:52His 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram, who was also shot by police, emerged from a coma on Tuesday afternoon.
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