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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Ahmad Fallaha in Nayrab, William Christou in Beirut and Ben Doherty in Sydney

Syrian home town of Ahmed al-Ahmed rallies around the Bondi hero, amid the rubble of civil war

It has been almost 20 years since Ahmed al-Ahmed left Nayrab in the countryside near the north-western Syrian city of Idlib. But on Sunday, he was the talk of the town.

Nayrab’s residents awoke to a video of Ahmed wrestling a gun from a shooter halfway around the world in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, saving lives in what was the country’s deadliest shooting in nearly 30 years.

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