PARIS: The foiled attack on a crowded Paris-Amsterdam train provoked a range of reactions from passengers, but the military training of two young Americans who tackled the gunman proved decisive, psychiatrists say.
When a heavily-armed man produced an AK-47 in the aisle of the packed train on Friday, it drew three kinds of responses: shock, attempts to save one’s own skin and finally rare action that saw the attacker being overpowered and a bloodbath almost certainly being averted.
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