'I didn’t hesitate': German student, 18, helped victim of fatal sword attack in Cobh

Arian, a volunteer firefighter in Dresden who has trained with the Irish Red Cross, told the Irish Examiner how he heard calls for help and shouts of 'there is a man down'

Arian Hanitzsch, an exchange student from Germany, who helped render emergency first aid to the victim of last Friday's fatal sword attack in Cobh.

A teenage first responder who helped the victim of last Friday’s fatal sword attack in Cork says his thoughts and prayers are with the young man's family.

Arian Hanitzsch, 18, an exchange student from Dresden, Germany, who is staying with a host family in Cobh, used his first aid training to help Ian Baitson, 32, who suffered horrific injuries when he was attacked by a man armed with a suspected Samurai sword in the car park of a shop on the town’s Newtown Road just before 9pm.