Bondi hero says he wanted to protect ‘innocent people’AFP, SYDNEYBondi Beach shooting hero Ahmed al-Ahmed recalled the moment he ran toward one of the attackers and wrestled the gun from him, saying in an interview published yesterday with a US outlet he wanted to protect “innocent people.”Father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram are accused of targeting a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, killing 15 people and wounding dozens in what authorities have described as an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. Despite the tragedy, tales of heroism emerged of those who tried to stop the two gunmen during their deadly rampage. Ahmed al-Ahmed talks to New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns, not pictured, at St George Hospital in Sydney in a photograph released on Dec.16. “My target was just to take the gun from him, and to stop him from killing a human being’s life and not killing innocent people,” he told CBS News in an interview that aired yesterday. Al-Ahmed was at the beach getting a cup of coffee when the shooting occurred.

Source: Taipei Times December 29, 2025 16:45 UTC