By Mahmoud Hasano

NAYRAB, Syria, Dec 16 (Reuters) - As Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly ​30 years unfolded, a Sydney shopowner was ​captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around ⁠the world in Syria, a group of men watching the footage recognised a familiar face.

Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, left his hometown in Syria's northwest province of Idlib nearly ​20 years ago to seek work in Australia. On Sunday, he ‍was wounded after wrestling a rifle ​away from a man attacking a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach, in which 15 people were killed.

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