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Alistair said he saw around a dozen people inside this enclosed buffet counter in coach G and they were "trying to close up the shutters" to protect themselves from the assailant.

It came a month after the terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester, northwest England, in which two people died and the knife-wielding assailant was fatally shot by police.

Foster said he saw an older man block the assailant from stabbing a younger girl, adding that the attack "felt like forever" though it lasted only minutes.

At Newport Crown Court on Friday, Tabitha Walker, prosecuting, said the victim, 24, tried to push her assailant away.

Five toddlers from a kindergarten class were in a public park, accompanied by two teachers, when the assailant attacked them with a kitchen knife on January 22.