Human right lawyer — and frequent National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky — was injured in today’s Australia attack that targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach and left at least 12 people killed.

He spoke to 9News Australia at the scene, his face and shirt covered in blood, his head wrapped in a bandage. This is a slightly edited transcript of that interview:

This was a bloodbath, it was an absolute massacre.

I was with my family, it was a Hanukkah celebration, there were hundreds of people. There were children, there were elderly, families enjoying themselves, children, kids at a festival, playing, and then all of a sudden it’s absolute chaos.

There’s guns, fire everywhere. People ducking, it was absolute chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was comi

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