One of three Americans hailed as heroes for overcoming a gunman on a train travelling to Paris has told a French court his main aim was to survive. Spencer Stone, a 28-year-old ex-serviceman, described via video from the US how he and his friends saw Ayoub El Khazzani pick up a Kalashnikov rifle and prepare to open fire. He counted three separate attempts the gunman made to try to kill him. Mr Stone was one of two people wounded in the August 2015 Thalys train attack. The other was fellow passenger Mark Magoolian. No-one died but Mr Stone rejected the defendant’s claim that he could not kill anyone. “I think we prevented a massacre,” French reports quoted him as telling the court.Ayoub El Khazzani, a 31-year-old Moroccan, is accused of attempted murder as part of a terrorist enterprise, three months before the deadly militant Islamist attacks in Paris.(BBC)…[+]