CANBERRA: A South Australian woman who sacrificed her own life to save others during a 2017 terrorist attack in London has been awarded an international honour, Xinhua news agency reported.
Kirsty Boden was on Tuesday posthumously awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction for nurses, by the International Red Cross.
Boden was stabbed to death in the London Bridge terrorist attack in June 2017 while helping other victims.
She was one of eight people killed during the attack and became known as “the angel of London Bridge” because of her sacrifice.
Peter Walton, the international director at Australian Red Cross, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that Boden’s “incredible passion and courage” made her a worthy recipient of the award.
Boden was having dinner with her friends, Harriet Mooney and Melanie Schroeder, when they heard the attack begin.
In a statement to an inquest into the attack, Schroeder said that Boden told her friends that as a nurse she had “to go and help” the victims.
She was stabbed by all three attackers and was found in an alleyway by her friends, where she died in spite of emergency treatment. – Bernama
