3 American friends tackle and hogtie gunman aboard European train
PARIS — French President François Hollande planned Saturday to meet three Americans who foiled a suspected terrorist attack on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris.
A gunman opened fire Friday on the high-speed train — a route packed with officials, businesspeople and diplomats — before being tackled and tied up by three men, according to family members and French officials, who said their quick work had foiled a major tragedy.
The three men were friends from middle school and two of them were members of the armed services, according to their family members. The Pentagon said only that one service member had been on the train and was wounded. The dramatic incident — in which a heavily armed man emerged from a train bathroom with an automatic rifle and started shooting — was being investigated by French counterterrorism authorities.
