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Family of Bondi Hero in Syria Says His Home Country Is Proud of Him

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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits Ahmed al Ahmed, the bystander who charged at one of the gunmen and seized his rifle during the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach, at St George Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Prime Minister’s Office/Handout via REUTERSNAYRAB, Syria—As Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years unfolded, a Sydney shop owner was captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around ‍the world in Syria, a group of men watching the ‍footage recognised a familiar face.Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, left his hometown in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib nearly 20 years ago to seek work in Australia. On Sunday, he ‌was wounded after wrestling a rifle away from a man attacking a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi ⁠Beach, in which 15 people were killed.

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