Nursing assistant Birat wrestled down the suspected murderer: "Hit him so he dropped the knife"

When Birat heard the screams, she first thought it was children out in the square. Then she saw a man holding a woman from behind and stabbing her in the neck with a knife.

- I tore off my jacket and hit his hand. Then he dropped the knife, Birat tells SVT Nyheter Skåne.

Wrestled the man down

The suspected perpetrator, who is in his 50s, ran away but Birat followed and wrestled the man to the ground.

She held him and felt the seconds that followed as very long.

- I shouted "help, help, call the police!"

The woman lay bleeding on the ground and a passerby did not dare try to stop the bleeding. But when Birat overpowered the perpetrator, people flocked.

"Didn't think about myself"

She estimates that it took half a minute before nurses were on the scene to help the woman.

Then the police came. The man is now arrested on suspicion of murder and will be remanded in custody on Friday. The woman died after the knife attack.

Did you ever think about your own safety?

- I wasn't thinking about myself, but about saving her.