The parents of a three-year-old girl caught in the Bondi Beach terror attack have spoken of the heroic stranger who shielded their child as bullets rained around them.
Parents Wayne and Vanessa spoke of the incredible moment they found their daughter, Gigi, hidden under the body of a woman who had been shot in the attack.
The family, who have three children, had been in separate ends of the park when the shooting began, with Wayne forced to shelter under a nearby table with their daughter Capri.
But it wasn’t until Vanessa called Wayne to ask if he also had Gigi with him that ‘absolute panic’ began to set in.
She said she’d been watching Gigi dance in the field when all of a sudden ‘she was gone’.
‘I gave Capri to Vanessa and I said: ‘I’m gonna go look for Gigi’. I went, I was looking, there was just blood and bodies everywhere and she was wearing a pink skirt and I saw this lady lying on top of her,’ Wayne told Sky News.
She said: ‘I’ve got your daughter, I’ve been protecting her.’
‘I said you’ve saved my daughter’s life. I said I’ll be indebted to you for the rest of my life.
Wayne said he found his daughter being protected by a woman, who’d been shot at as she protected the girl with her body
The family were in the park when the shooting began, with Wayne forced to take cover under a table with one of his young daughters
