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The 2015 Thalys train attack was a shooting and stabbing incident that took place on 21 August 2015 aboard a Thalys train passing through Oignies, Pas-de-Calais, France. The train was traveling from Amsterdam to Paris via Brussels when the perpetrator opened fire in a train carriage before being subdued by passengers, one of whom he stabbed. Including the assailant, four people were injured, none fatally. The incident is believed by French police to be an Islamist terrorist attack, although the gunman claimed the motivation was robbery due to hunger. Several people who subdued the attacker were awarded France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honour and other awards. ==Attack== At approximately 17:45 CEST (5:45 p.m.) on 21 August, on Thalys train 9364〔 traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, reportedly a 25-year-old Moroccan man, Ayoub El Khazzani,〔〔〔 exited the toilets on train car No. 12, shortly after the train had crossed the border from Belgium into France. He was shirtless and armed with an AKM assault rifle,〔 for which he had nine magazines and a total of 270 rounds of ammunition. He was also carrying a pistol and a bottle of petrol.〔 A 28-year-old Frenchman, whose name was released only as "Damien A.", was heading to the toilet as the armed gunman was exiting. Damien A. attempted to restrain or disarm the gunman but fell to the floor in the ensuing struggle. An American-born Frenchman, 51-year-old Mark Moogalian,〔 attempted to wrest the rifle from the gunman, who then drew an automatic 9mm Luger pistol.〔〔 Moogalian was shot through the back of the neck; seriously injured, he played dead.〔〔 The assailant also tried to fire his rifle, but it jammed.〔 The gunman was then tackled and subdued by a group of three American friends, two of them off-duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=French official: 2 Americans subdued train gunman )〕 They were identified as 23-year-old Airman First Class Spencer Stone, 23-year-old Anthony Sadler, and 22-year-old Specialist Alek Skarlatos.〔 Sadler told CNN that Skarlatos yelled "Get him!" after which "Spencer immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself." In an interview with Sky News, Skarlatos added that they had been lucky that the attacker's rifle had jammed. Stone was reportedly the first of the three Americans to attack the gunman and was slashed multiple times while trying to subdue him, sustaining injuries to the hand, head, and neck. Stone put him in a chokehold, holding on though the assailant was cutting him with a box cutter, nearly severing his thumb.〔 Skarlatos seized the assailant's rifle〔 and beat him in the head with its muzzle until the assailant was unconscious. A British passenger, 62-year-old Chris Norman, and a French train driver〔 came to their aid to hold the gunman down. They used Norman's T-shirt to tie his arms behind his back.〔 The passengers then helped Moogalian, who "had blood pouring from the neck"〔 due to his gunshot wound.〔 Stone, who is a medic,〔 initially tried to wrap his shirt around the wound, despite having an injured hand and cut eye himself. However, he realized it was not going to be effective in stopping the bleeding. Instead, he stuck two of his fingers into Moogalian's wound and pushed down on what he thought was an artery, which stopped the bleeding. The train, which was carrying 554 passengers,〔 was passing Oignies in the Pas-de-Calais department when the attack took place. It was rerouted to the station of nearby Arras. Moogalian was airlifted to the University Hospital in Lille, while Stone was later treated for wounds on his thumb, an eye injury, and other minor wounds.〔 The remaining passengers were all brought to a gym in Arras, where they were searched and had their identity documents checked before being allowed to proceed to Paris.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Thalys train attack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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