'Heroic' bystanders subdue attacker on stabbing rampage in New Zealand supermarket

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Source: Washington Post

Asia & Pacific

'Heroic' bystanders subdue attacker on stabbing rampage in New Zealand supermarket

By Rachel Pannett
Foreign Correspondent
May 10, 2021 at 5:02 a.m. EDT

SYDNEY -- Police praised "heroic" bystanders for disrupting a frenzied knife attack at a New Zealand grocery store on Monday.

A man wielding two knives allegedly stabbed four people, three of them critically, before he was detained by onlookers and held until police arrived at the supermarket in Dunedin, a university town of around 130,000 people on New Zealand's South Island.

Surveillance footage of the attack showed the actions of the bystanders were "nothing short of heroic," said New Zealand Police Superintendent Paul Basham.

"Those that intervened, some of whom became injured themselves, I think have acted selflessly and with great courage to prevent this man from hurting anybody else," he told reporters.

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By Rachel Pannett
Rachel Pannett writes about Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific for The Washington Post. She joined the Post's foreign desk in 2021 after more than a decade with The Wall Street Journal, where she was deputy bureau chief for Australia and New Zealand. Twitter https://twitter.com/rachelpannett



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Captain Covfefe F52 Ace - Retired 23 minutes ago

In the event of knife psycho, head to the canned goods aisle ... you want something throwable.

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. This is the US. . .knife psycho? AR15s are much more effective and require less

physical strength.

[intheflow]

2. Seriously hoping you just forgot the sarcasm emoji. n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. Of course I did. I would hope I wouldn't need to add that.

[intheflow]

4. Cool, cool.

[Kali]

5. interesting

recently I was harshly corrected about cops never needing to stop a knife attack with anything other than bullets.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215413032#post2

[Crowman2009]

6. I would have rush to where the coconuts are.

Or get anything else from the produce section that's hard as a rock.

[Auggie]

7. At my Safeway that would be a loaf of sourdough