倫敦奧運火炬險遭阿拉伯少年搶奪

2012-07-23 17:15

The teenager is taken away and Ms Skora can continue her leg of the relay.

A 17-year-old shouted 'Allahu Akbar' - Arabic for 'God is Great' - as he unsuccessfully tried to grab the Olympic torch during a stretch of the flame's route through Maidstone towards Redhill.

Broadcast live on the BBC, the youth lunged from the crowd to try to take the torch from the hands of its bearer Anna Skora, but was swiftly bundled away by officers.

In one video posted to YouTube he can be seen waiting behind a car and as Ms Skora gets closer he lunges towards the torch.

Ms Skora was about to hand over the torch to Graham White, a Surrey charity worker, when the teenager burst out of the crowd and tried to grab it.

He managed to get through the line of police officers escorting the torch as it headed through the town.

One of the officers at the back of the group swiftly grabbed hold of Ms Skora and the torch, guiding them to the opposite side of the road.

Four or five of the other torch guards then bundled the man to the side of the road where he was then arrested.

Ms Skora managed to keep the torch upright throughout the ordeal and she continued to smile as she completed her stretch of the Olympic flame relay.

The incident happened as the torch was being taken into Gravesend on Friday morning.

The youth, from Gravesend, is currently being held in custody and the torch continued on its way without disruption, Kent Police said.

(Read by Rosie Tuck. Rosie Tuck is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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在倫敦奧運火炬從梅德斯通向紅山傳遞的過程中，一位17歲少年一邊用阿拉伯語高呼“真主偉大”，一邊試圖搶奪火炬，但沒有成功。

英國廣播公司對這次傳遞過程進行了直播。這位青少年突然從人群中沖出來，試圖搶走火炬手安娜-斯可拉手中的火炬，但安保人員迅速制服了他。

在YouTube視頻網站的一段視頻中，可以看到他當時正躲在一輛車的背后等著。斯可拉手持火炬跑近時，他沖出去搶奪火炬。

斯可拉當時正準備把火炬交給薩里的慈善工作者格雷漢姆-懷特，這時這名年輕人突然沖出人群，想搶走火炬。

他成功地躲過火炬傳遞安保人員，當時火炬正在城中傳遞。

人群后面的一位警察很快設法護住了斯可拉和火炬，并把火炬傳遞路線引向了路的另一側。

護送火炬的四五名警衛人員隨后制服了這名男子，押送到路邊并逮捕了他。

斯可拉成功地護住了火炬，免于劫難。她繼續微笑著完成了傳遞奧運圣火的過程。

這起事件是上周五上午火炬向格雷夫森德傳遞的過程中出現的。

肯特警方稱，這名年輕人來自格雷夫森德，目前已被逮捕，火炬繼續傳遞未受影響。

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（中國日報網英語點津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮）

Vocabulary:

bundle away: 把……打發走，攆走

ordeal: 嚴酷的考驗

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