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'I got f----- up': Australian injured in London terror attacks recalls stabbing
By Tom Cowie
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An Australian man injured in the London Bridge terror attacks has described the terrifying moment a man came up and stabbed in him in the neck.
A video posted on social media shows the man, identified as Darwin electrician Andrew Morrison, holding a blood-stained bandage over his neck as he talks to the camera in the aftermath of the violence.
"He got me," he said of the attack. "I dodged it, I ducked and weaved (but) I got f----d up."
Mr Morrison said he was on his last night out in London and had just left a bar called Belushi's, where he was watching the Champions League soccer final, when he saw what he thought was a fight break out across the road.
"All a sudden a guy comes up with a knife and ... stabs me there and I just push him off," he said.
"Blood's going everywhere, I walk into a pub and I'm like 'someone help me I've just been stabbed'."
When asked if the attacker was wearing a mask, Mr Morrison said he hated to say it but the man "looked like a f---ing Muslim terrorist".
Mr Morrison's sister Katrina, said he was safe and a flight home was being arranged.
"Yes my brother was involved," she said. "We're currently sorting out his flight home ... Yeah, right now we are just happy he is safe," she said.
Mr Morrison is one of three Australians caught up in the violence which erupted in London on Saturday night local time, leaving seven people dead and 48 people in hospital. Three suspected terrorists were killed and a dozen arrests have been made.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that Mr Morrison was on his way back to Australia, while Brisbane woman Candice Hedge, is still in hospital.
Consular staff in London are seeking more information about a third Australian who was injured in the attack.
Ms Hedge, 34, has been left unable to speak after being stabbed in the throat.
"She can't talk. She's been stabbed around her neck, her throat. She's all bandaged up." her mother, Kim Del Toro, told Fairfax Media.
"She went into surgery, but she's going to be fine, thank goodness."
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who met with national security advisers and cabinet colleagues on Sunday after the attack, said Australia stood in "resolute solidarity" with the people of Britain.
"This attack is yet another cruel example of the new reality with which we live, the ever-present threat of murderous Islamist terrorists, intent to harm our communities, our way of life and the freedoms we hold dear."
- with Steve Lillebuen, Fergus Hunter