WatcherZero
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The new story changed a bit, making it less suspicious about US soldier presence.
The two US soldiers , a US student friend traveling with them, and a UK businessman were all sitting in Premier (First Class), when suddenly the train guard in a state of horror ran past, just after the first shot.
The two US soldiers then saw the guy with the Kalashnikov walk in, and immediately ran towards him, jumped onto him and tried to fight him.
Their student friend also joined in, and they managed to disarm the man.
When the UK businessman joined in, and they tried to tie him up, the gunman managed to pull out a gun and severely wound one of the US soldiers, but they managed to overpower him eventually.
Source: Dutch NOS, with information coming from witnesses and a press conference.
Yeah, some more details emerged which kinda makes the initial US servicemen's involvement announcement seem more publicity oriented by the US government and reduces the way the initial claim made it sound suspicious.
It wasn't the US servicemen who overhead the gun being loaded it was a Frenchman who then alerted others. The attackers assault rifle jammed and the US men jumped him after that, clobbering him on the head with his own pistol, they didn't intervene before he begun his spree. The involvement of the British man who resubdued the attacker after he overpowered the two US men, cutting himself free from the restraints they had tied and slashing one of the US men.
The three injured were:
1. Passenger shot before the gun jammed
2. The attacker sustained head wounds from being hit with the pistol
3. one of the US men had his neck slashed by a knife after the attacker cut through restraints.
The two US men and the British man were awarded medals for their action, note the initial press release didn't even mention the existence of the British man and claimed it was the US servicemen who overheard the attacker loading his gun in the toilet.
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