{"id":347593,"date":"2025-12-14T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347593\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:14:08","slug":"former-england-cricket-captain-michael-vaughan-hid-during-scary-bondi-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347593\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan hid during \u2018scary\u2019 Bondi terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former England cricket captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/michael-vaughan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Vaughan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Michael Vaughan<\/a> has recounted a &#8220;scary&#8221; experience after being caught up in a terrorist attack in Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sydney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sydney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sydney<\/a>, which left at least 12 people dead and 29 injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Australian police confirmed the incident targeted a Jewish celebration at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bondi-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bondi Beach;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bondi Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vaughan, 51, currently working as a media pundit for the Ashes series, revealed on X that he was locked inside a restaurant in the area, taking shelter with others during the attack. He admitted the situation had been &#8220;scary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBeing locked in a restaurant in Bondi was scary.. Now home safe,\u201d Vaughan said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBut thanks so much to the emergency services and the guy who confronted the terrorist .. thoughts with all who have been affected .. xxx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">England are 2-0 down in the Ashes series, with the third Test in Adelaide starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has recounted a &#8220;scary&#8221; experience after being caught up in a terrorist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[11638,64,63,89155,740,191937,191939,17055,85,191938],"class_list":["post-347593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes-series","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi-beach","tag-cricket","tag-england-cricket-captain","tag-jewish-celebration","tag-michael-vaughan","tag-sports","tag-terrorist-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}