Over $1.2 million (US$800,000) has been raised for Sydney hero Ahmed al Ahmed, the 43-year-old fruit shop owner, who risked his life to disarm one of the shooters of the terror attack targeting a Jewish crowd on Dec. 14.
In footage that has since gone viral, al Ahmed can be seen sneaking up on one of the shooters, Sajid Akram, before charging, grabbing, and wresting a high-powered rifle from his hands.
Akram fell to the ground and ran back to the bridge where his son, Naveed Akram, was stationed.
Its reported al Ahmed sustained five bullet wounds during the entire ordeal mainly across his left arm, with one embedded in his left shoulder blade. He is being treated at St Georges Hospital in Sydney’s Kogarah in the south….