Police have charged a man over the alleged vehicle attack on Australian MP Helen Haines, who is in critical but stable condition and has reportedly lost a leg.
Brendan Nugent, 43, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury; intentionally causing serious injury; and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official.
Police allege the incident, which occurred outside Haines’s electoral office in Wangaratta, was targeted.
A barber who was at the scene also recounts how bystanders responded “immediately” and helped disarm the alleged attacker.
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