Battle of Broken Hill

Battle of Broken Hill
Replica of Badsha Mahommed Gool's ice cream cart, located near the white quartz outcrop where the battle occurred
Location	Broken Hill, Australia
Date	1 January 1915
Target	Civilians
Attack type	Mass murder, massacre
Deaths	6 (including both perpetrators)
Injured	7
Perpetrator	Badsha Mahommed Gool Mullah Abdullah
Motive	Support Ottoman Empire in World War I

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The Battle of Broken Hill was a fatal incident which took place in Australia near Broken Hill, New South Wales, on 1 January 1915. Two men shot dead four people and wounded seven more, before being killed by police and military officers. Though politically and religiously motivated, the men were not members of any sanctioned armed force and the attacks were criminal. The two men were later identified as Muslim "Ghans" from colonial India (some sources incorrectly identify them as Turkish).^[1]