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President Francois Hollande will on Monday bestow France's highest honour on a group of Americans and a Briton who have been hailed as heroes for overpowering a Moroccan gunman on a crowded train. Anti-terror investigators are questioning the alleged attacker, 25-year-old Ayoub El Khazzani, who boarded a high-speed train in Brussels bound for Paris on Friday armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Luger automatic pistol, ammunition and a box-cutter. Hollande will personally thank the group for their bravery on Monday, when he is to award them the country's Legion d'Honneur medal.

 

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