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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam

Syrian delivery driver who rammed car into attacker hailed as hero in Austria

Police officers stand guard, while people stand watching behind a police cordon
Police officers stand guard at the scene where a 14-year-old boy was killed and several others wounded in the attack in the town of Villach. Photograph: Borut Živulovič/Reuters

A Syrian migrant living in Austria has been hailed as a hero after he rammed his car into an attacker, bringing down a radicalised assailant who had killed one teenager and left five others injured.

The stabbing, described by Austria’s interior minister as having been carried out by a Syrian man who was legally living in the country and who had become radicalised by the Islamic State group, happened on Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Villach.

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