India, Dec. 16 -- Sajid Akram, the 50-year-old killed during a terror attack on a Jewish gathering in Australia, was an Indian national, the Philippines' Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday while confirming that he visited the country in November.

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 in Sydney on Sunday. Naveed Akram is in hospital under police guard while Sajid Akram was shot dead in an exchange of fire with police.

Dana Sandoval, a spokesperson for the Philippines' Bureau of Immigration, said, "Sajid Akram, 50, Indian national (Australian resident), and Naveed Akram, 24, Australian national, arrived in the Phil...