Bondi Beach hero revealed as Muslim fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed shot twice after disarming shooter

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, was named by family as the man who wrestled one of the gunmen to the ground before aiming it back at the attacker forcing him to retreat.

Mr al Ahmed, a Muslim father-of-two with no gun experience, was passing Bondi Beach when he heard the shooting erupt.

The fruit seller was shot twice by the other suspect after he snuck up on one of the gunmen and managed to disarm him.

‘He’s in hospital and we don’t know exactly what’s going on inside,’ his cousin Mustafa told 7News.

‘We do hope he will be fine. He’s a hero 100 percent.

‘He was shot once in his arm and again in his hand. I’m still waiting to see him.’

In a video after the attack, Ahmed appears to be receiving first aid. He is coherent in the video and can be seen speaking to responders as they tend to his wounds.

New South Wales premier Christopher John Minns said in a press conference the disarming was ‘the most unbelievable scene I’ve ever seen’.

‘That man is a genuine hero, and I’ve got no doubt that there are many, many people alive tonight as a result of his bravery.”

‘A man walking up to a gunman who had fired on the community and single-handedly disarming him, putting his own life at risk to save the lives of countless other people,’ he says.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman are among the twelve dead in the Bondi terror massacre, with at least 29 taken to hospital with injuries.

An Israeli citizen is thought to have been killed with children among the injured.