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Man ‘Hugged’ a Pregnant Woman To Protect Her as Shooter Opened Fire on NYC Train

Sole gunman aims a car full of morning travellers in New York City’s Brooklyn borough on Tuesday. The man unlocked fire soon after the N train left the 59th street stop, wounding numerous passengers on the train.

27 year-old Hourari Benkada was one of the fatalities and he shared that in the middle of the confusion and horror, sheltered a pregnant woman who was also on the train.

Benkada said from his hospital bed that he was gunshot in the back of the knee in the course of the outbreak at 8:30 in the morning April 12.

Benkada, wasn’t paying any close by attention similar to most other travellers as to what was going on around him. So he didn’t pay any notice when the shooter supposedly sat down next to him. Benakada was wearing earphones when he got on the train and the man next to him was wearing a mask. Read the full story here ▶