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By: 21st August 2015 at 23:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-They apparently heard him loading a weapon in the toilet and tackeled him as he left it, that goes beyond mere bravery. Very well done to them and i hope they get rewarded for their actions.
By: 22nd August 2015 at 09:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-soldier-how-we-stopped-train-gunman/ar-BBlZtUb?ocid=iehp
An American soldier has told how he helped overpower a gunman who opened fire on a train from Amsterdam to Paris.
Alek Skarlatos, 22, was on a European holiday with two of his childhood friends, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, when they heard gunshots on the train.
When the gunman burst into their carriage, Mr Skarlatos and Mr Spencer, who is in the Air Force, charged at him.
"I just yelled 'Let's go!'," Mr Skarlatos told Sky News from his hotel from in Arras, northern France.
"Spencer got to the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck and I grabbed the handgun, got the handgun away from the guy and threw it.
"Then I grabbed the AK, which was at his feet and started muzzle thumping him in the head with it."
As Mr Stone was wrestling the gun off the suspect, he was badly cut by the suspect, who had a box cutter knife.
Mr Stone needs surgery on his badly wounded hand, but his friends say he is "doing fine". Two other people were also wounded in the attack.
After the suspect was restrained, Mr Skarlatos - who only recently returned from Afghanistan - began disarming the gunman's pile of weapons and realised the AK47 had jammed.
"He didn't know how to fix it, which is very lucky," he said.
"If that guy's weapon had been functioning properly I don't even want to think about how it would have went.
"Spencer would have been dead for sure, because he was the first one up.
"We were incredibly lucky."
Mr Skarlatos and Mr Sadler said their "heroic" friend also saved the life of another passenger, whose throat was cut.
"In the aftermath, we saw that a man's throat had been split and he was bleeding profusely," Mr Sadler said.
"Spencer, who has some paramedics training, just clogged up his neck so he wouldn't die. This is all in the midst of Spencer bleeding profusely himself.
"It was just really heroic of him to do something like that."
He added: "I just applaud my friends for being on point.
"If Alek didn't yell 'Go!' and Spencer didn't get up straight away who knows how many people he would have shot."
By: 23rd August 2015 at 21:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Apparently they had help from a Brit businessman who thought I am going to die anyway so don’t sit here, do something”. Also an anonymous French national helped out!
By: 24th August 2015 at 07:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-For once we can use the term 'heroism' in its true context.
By: 24th August 2015 at 07:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-We can indeed and I see they are to receive France's highest honour from the President.
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By: TonyT - 21st August 2015 at 22:39
Well done to the two Americans who appear to have saved a hell of a lot of lives..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11817679/France-high-speed-train-shooting-what-we-know-so-far.html