Bondi Beach Incident Leaves Brave Man Seriously Wounded

(MENAFN) Ahmed Al Ahmed, 43, celebrated worldwide for bravely confronting a gunman during a mass shooting on an Australian shoreline, was “shot four to five times,” according to a statement from his parents released on Monday.

“He saw they were dying, and people were losing their lives, and when that guy (the shooter) ran out of ammo, he (Ahmed) took it from him, but he was hit,” his mother, Malakeh Hasan Al Ahmed, said during an interview with a broadcaster.

Ahmed was “shot four to five times in his shoulder, with several of the bullets still lodged inside him,” his Syrian parents, Mohamed Fateh Al Ahmed and Malakeh, explained after arriving in Australia a few months earlier.

Authorities in Australia reported that two unidentified assailants—a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son—began shooting along Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday night. The attack left 15 people dead and 42 others wounded, all of whom were transported to hospitals for medical care.

Police confirmed that one of the attackers was killed at the scene, while the second suffered life-threatening injuries. Officials formally labeled the episode a “terrorist act.”

Ahmed relocated to Australia in 2006 from Syria, where he was born in the village of al-Nayrab in the northwestern Idlib governorate.

He holds Australian citizenship and earns his living working as a fruit vendor.

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