Police take a suspect into custody near the Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, May 10, 2021. A man began stabbing people at a New Zealand supermarket Monday, wounding five people, three of them critically, according to authorities. (Otago Daily Times via AP)
(NEWSER) – Shoppers and staff at a New Zealand supermarket were being praised for their bravery Monday after authorities said they managed to stop a frenzied man from hurting others after he stabbed four people in a random attack, critically wounding three of them. Some reports put the number injured at five. New Zealand Police Superintendent Paul Basham said he’d watched CCTV footage of the attack at a Countdown supermarket in the city of Dunedin and the actions of the bystanders in detaining the man until police arrived was “nothing short of heroic.” “What I can say is that 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,” Basham said. Two of those wounded were supermarket staff members, the AP reports
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