Townsville Bulletin

Hero hit attacker with crate

- LEXIE CARTWRIGHT ELLEN WHINNETT

“It’s now been dra draggingi out t to be two days without knowing anything … it becomes quite difficult.”

Mr Wallace said that the family’s fears only really began after Ms Zelenak’s friends alerted them she was in the area during the attack.

He said they had plans to meet up with her in France on the 29th of this month before she was going to head back home to Australia in August.

Ms Zelenak was not the type of person to be out of touch and spoke to them daily, Main: The terrorists walking past bars near London Bridge; ( right) missing Brisbane woman Sara Zelenak; ( above) grieving Londoners and ( left) Christine Archibald. MrM Wallace said. “She would be in contact every day, it was constant communicat­ion.”

The family she had been staying with had filed a missing person’s report and were also trying to search for informatio­n, Mr Wallace said.

The Facebook post launched in the search for Ms Zelenak read: “Dear friends please can I ask you to share this post. My friend’s daughter, Sara Zelenak, was last seen on London Bridge and was witness to the terror attacks She got separated from her friends and has not been seen since. Her phone has rang with no reply and now the battery must have gone.”

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said authoritie­s had “very real concerns” for two Australian­s in addition to the two known to have been injured in the attacks. They are believed to be Brisbane woman Candice Hedge and Darwin man Andrew Morrison who both survived significan­t neck injuries.

Reports also emerged that one of the three knifemen, a 27- year- old known as “Abz’’, is believed to have been born in Pakistan but raised in Britain and was apparently radicalise­d by watching YouTube videos of a hate preacher.

Neighbours recognised Abz, a former London Undergroun­d worker, after they saw photograph­s of him dying in the street.

Police have arrested 12 people in connection to the attacks after raids in Barking, East London. Eleven people were detained at what is thought to be Abz’s flat, which he shared with his mother, his wife and two small children. Police also raided properties in East Ham and Newham.

A friend said he had phoned the anti- terror hotline about Abz. “He used to listen to a lot of Musa Jibril ( notorious US hate preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril). I have heard some of this stuff and it’s very radical,’’ he said.

Abz had also appeared in a TV documentar­y about jihadism and was spoken to by police after an IS flag was unfurled, on camera, in a park. A ROMANIAN baker who belted one of the London Bridge terrorists over the head with a crate has emerged as yet another of the heroes who stepped up during the carnage of Saturday’s nights terror attacks.

Florin Morariu, who works at Bread Ahead, in Borough Market, has been hailed for his bravery after he fought back against the terrorists, and helped 20 people shelter in his shop during the rampage.

“We were looking out the window because we saw that everyone was agitated, everyone was running, people, women … they were fainting,” Mr Morariu ( pictured) said.

He saw two men stabbing passers- by and “froze”, but then composed himself, grabbed a crate and belted one of the terrorists over the head.

“There was a car with a loudspeake­r saying, ‘ go, go’ and they ( police) threw a grenade … and then I ran,” he said.

He realised people were desperate to find safety, and let about 20 people into the bakery before locking the doors and pulling the shutters down.

He then ran through Borough Market, filming the scene and giving updates in English and Romanian.

An unidentifi­ed young woman may also have saved lives after she slowed down the terrorists by holding the door shut on the Black and Blue steakhouse.

Taxi driver Aksha Patel, who picked the woman and her partner up afterwards, said she bought time for those inside to escape.

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