With all of the horror pouring out of Paris in the last couple of days, few even remember the horrific bombing attack that happened in busy downtown Beirut earlier last week. Two vicious and coordinated attacks hit downtown Beirut during the busiest of rush hours and the bombings ended up killing 45 and wounding over 200 others.

But amid all of that chaos and murder, a little girl watched her father die so that hundreds of others didn’t have to.

If not for her father, Adel Termos, the death toll from the Beirut attacks would have eclipsed Paris by many hundreds, according to The Washington Post. It was the busy rush hour in downtown Beirut last Thursday and Termos was strolling through a downtown market holding his little girl’s hand and looking to pick up something for the family dinner that night.

The marketplace was mobbed with people as usual and all went about there business as people do everyday everywhere in the world. Suddenly, the first bomber exploded himself and there was chaos, blood, and bodies everywhere. As Termos went to shelter his young daughter, he saw a second bomber with his hand on the trigger of his explosives vest ready to do murder.

Termos just reacted. He leaped upon the bomber and tackled him to the ground and stayed on top of him just as the trigger was detonated. The little girl saw her father blown to bits but his heroic actions saved many hundreds of people who were still stunned and unmoving in the marketplace.

A Beirut physician and popular blogger, Elie Fares, commented that there are many hundreds of families that literally owe the lives of their loved ones to the bravery of Adel Termos. Fares went on to say, “His heroism transcended his own life to save others. To make that kind of decision in a split second, to decide that you would rather save hundreds than go back to your family, to decide that the collective lives of those around you are more important than your own is something I think no one will ever understand.”