Afghan veteran hospitalised after station assault

Afghan veteran hospitalised after station assault3 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMike AppsSouth of EnglandFamily handoutNoor Aziz Ahmadzai served alongside the British Army in AfghanistanAn Afghan Special Forces veteran who served alongside the British Army has suffered a serious brain injury following an alleged assault at a railway station. Noor Aziz Ahmadzai, 39, was airlifted to hospital after collapsing following an incident while working as a security guard at Weymouth station last month. Scans revealed he had sustained a bleed on the brain. He has since regained consciousness, but faces a lengthy road to recovery.British Transport Police (BTP) said two teenage girls arrested in connection with the incident had been released while inquiries continued.Family handoutAziz Ahmadzai had been working as security guard at Weymouth Railway Station when he collapsedAziz Ahmadzai's former partner Georgia Morse, with whom he has a two-year-old son, was visited by police in the early hours of the morning to be told about his condition.She said: "They said he had been involved in a serious incident and had a serious brain injury."Whilst they were with me, they were getting updates saying he had a bleed on the brain. It was really worrying."It was a complete shock and, of course, really distressing, especially to hear it was whilst he was at work."Aziz Ahmadzai's former partner Georgia Morse has been supporting him while he is being treated in hospitalAziz Ahmadzai had a distinguished military career in Afghanistan and received officer training in the UK at Sandhurst.He went on to become deputy commander of a specialist counter-terrorism unit, on occasions directly confronting suicide bombers.He was deployed to major incidents including the Taliban siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in 2018 and attack on a maternity ward in Kabul in 2020.When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, he was able to flee to the UK through t...