{"id":9039,"date":"2025-12-14T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/bystander-who-tackled-armed-man-at-bondi-beach-shooting-hailed-as-hero\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:14:51","slug":"bystander-who-tackled-armed-man-at-bondi-beach-shooting-hailed-as-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/bystander-who-tackled-armed-man-at-bondi-beach-shooting-hailed-as-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander who tackled armed man at Bondi Beach shooting hailed as hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Christine Chen<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming \u200ban armed man during an attack in \u200bwhich 12 people were shot dead at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Beach \u2060on Sunday has been hailed as a hero whose actions potentially saved lives.  <\/p>\n<p>Footage circulating on social media shows a man in a car park wearing a white \u200bshirt running up to a man in a dark shirt who \u200dis holding a rifle. He then \u200btackles the armed man from behind, wrenching the rifle from him with his hands before pointing the gun back at the man.<\/p>\n<p>The video then shows&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/12\/bystander-who-tackled-armed-man-bondi-beach-shooting-hailed-hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming \u200ban armed man during an attack&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}