New South Wales premier calls the act caught on camera, ’the most unbelievable scene I’ve ever seen’ and credits the bystander with protecting countless lives.Emergency vehicles at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach, Sydney, on Dec. 14, 2025. Izhar Khan/Reuters12/14/2025|Updated: 12/14/2025A beachgoer who tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen has become an unexpected hero of the Dec. 14 shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.Video filmed from a nearby apartment shows one of the attackers firing repeatedly toward crowds gathered along the foreshore before an unidentified man steps in and wrests the weapon from his hands.Naziya Alvi Rahman is a Canberra-based journalist who covers political issues in Australia. She can be reached at [email protected].Author’s Selected Articles
Hero at Sydney Mass Shooting Approaches Gunman From Behind, Disarms Him
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