Family hails 'miracle' as police officer shot in the head during Bondi attack returns home

The family of a police officer who was shot in the head during a Hanukkah celebration on Australia’s Bondi Beach are hailing his return home as “a miracle.”

The family of a young police officer who was shot in the head during an attack on a Hanukkah celebration on Australia’s Bondi Beach is hailing his return home as “a miracle.”

Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert, 22, was discharged from a hospital on the same day that lawmakers in New South Wales, the country's most populous state, are set to pass tougher gun laws, ban the display of terrorist symbols and curb protests in an emergency sitting.

“As a family, we couldn’t ask for anything more — having our Jack home, especially for Christmas, truly feels like a miracle,” Hibbert's family said in a statement.

Hibbert was patrolling the famous Sydney beach when two gunmen opened fire on the largely Jewish crowd, killing 15 people and injuring dozens of others Dec. 14, in Australia's deadliest shooting in almost three decades.

He had been a police officer for only four months and was wounded in his head and shoulder.