Muzafar Ahmad Tahir: Hero security guard's family open up on Bondi Junction ... trends now
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A brother, an uncle and now a national hero, the family of Faraz Tahir say he was much more than a security guard on the day he died.
His eldest brother and head of the family, Muzafar Ahmad Tahir, said he was a stranger to most, but gave his blood to protect the public.
Mr Tahir was one of the six victims killed at Westfield Bondi Junction on April 13 in a mass stabbing rampage.
The 30-year-old refugee was on his first day shift at the complex when Queensland man Joel Cauchi began attacking people.
Security guard Faraz Tahir was the only male victim to die in the attack
Mr Tahir had fled persecution in Pakistan before arriving in Australia in 2022, which he intended to be his final home.
He was the only male victim to die in the Bondi Junction attack.
The lives of Jade Young, 47, Ashlee Good, 38, Dawn Singleton, 25, Pikria Darchia, 55, and Yixuan Cheng, 27, were also lost in the tragedy.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott ended 40-year-old Cauchi's rampage when she shot him on level five of the complex as shoppers fled.
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