Man arrested after slashing incident in Jalan Bukit Merah
Screengrabs from a video posted on social media on Jun 29, 2022. (Photo: Facebook/Ethan Lee YS)
SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly slashed the head of a 75-year-old man with a knife in Jalan Bukit Merah on Wednesday (Jun 29) morning.
Both men are believed to be known to each other, said the police on Thursday in response to queries from CNA.
The police said they were alerted to the case at Blk 111, Jalan Bukit Merah at around 11.15am on Wednesday.
The victim was conscious when taken to the hospital. The 50-year-old man was arrested for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon.
Police investigations are ongoing.
In video circulated on social media, a man in a dark-coloured T-shirt can be seen charging toward another man with what appears to be a knife near a walkway at a coffee shop. Several onlookers threw plastic chairs at the attacker during the incident.
A woman and two other men can later be seen attending to a man in a light-coloured T-shirt. The man appears to be bleeding from the head.
Members of the public were also seen in the video using plastic chairs to pin the alleged attacker to the ground. Several police officers are later seen attending to the attacker as they arrest him.
