A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train travelling
from Amsterdam to Paris, wounding two people before three American
passengers subdued him, according to officials and one of the Americans
involved.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve,
speaking in Arras in northern France where the suspect was detained
yesterday, said one of the American passengers was hospitalised with
serious wounds.
Two of the Americans were in the
military, according to their travelling companion and childhood friend
Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University. He said that
the injured American was Spencer Stone of the Sacramento area and the
other was Alek Skarlatos of Roseburg, Oregon.
“We
heard a gunshot, and we heard glass breaking behind us, and saw a train
employee sprint past us down the aisle,” Mr.Sadler said from France,
describing the drama. Then, they saw a gunman entering the train car
with an automatic rifle, he said.
“As he was cocking
it to shoot it, Alek just yells, ‘Spencer, go!’ And Spencer runs down
the aisle,” Mr.Sadler said. “Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the
guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a
box cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him
until he was unconscious.”
Another passenger helped
tie the gunman up, and Mr.Stone then helped another passenger who had
been wounded in the throat and losing blood, Mr.Sadler said. “The gunman
never said a word,” he added.
The suspect is
a 26-year-old Moroccan, according to Sliman Hamzi, and an official with
the Alliance police union, who spoke on French television i-Tele.
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