A six-year-old Indian girl has won praise for her brave attempt at stopping an axe-wielding robber, who attacked an employee at her father’s store in Auckland, New Zealand in a burglary
Sarah Patel (inset) lunges to protect a victim from an attacker
Melbourne: A six-year-old Indian girl has won praise for her brave attempt at stopping an axe-wielding robber, who attacked an employee at her father’s store in Auckland, New Zealand in a burglary.
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Sarah Patel was captured on CCTV trying to defend the staff member when a group of six armed men broke into the family’s electrical shop on Monday. The footage shows the masked men kicking, punching and threatening employees with an axe and a crowbar and smashing cabinets. Patel is seen rushing towards one of the attackers standing over an employee with an axe, and tries to get him to stop him by grabbing on to his leg. The armed incident ended in a dramatic police chase from the North Shore to west Auckland. She said she was “trying to save” the employee and that she “wasn’t scared” of the bad guy.
Her father Suhail Patel said he was “proud” of his daughter and though she had been shaken by the incident, she was recovering well. “Last night she was very upset. Was in shock. We’ve been trying to say to her ‘You’re the bravest girl’, that sort of thing,” he said.
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