Australian MP Helen Haines loses leg in deliberate car attack, remains in critical condition

The independent MP was hit by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria, on Monday afternoon.

The driver has been arrested. According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the driver made a U-turn after initially passing Helen Haines.

“It is clear that it was a deliberate attack,” Albanese said, adding that the motive is unclear.

Haines, now 65, trained as a midwife. In the 2000s, she lived in Uppsala, where she received her doctorate in medicine about 15 years ago.