Singapore knife incident: Alleged attacker known to neighbourhood police, tests positive for drugs

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SINGAPORE, Jan 10 — A 42-year-old man who purportedly held a woman at knifepoint in Yishun yesterday (January 9) is known to police officers who regularly patrolled the...

SINGAPORE, Jan 10 — A 42-year-old man who purportedly held a woman at knifepoint in Yishun yesterday is known to police officers who regularly patrolled the vicinity where the crime happened.

The police ascertained that neither the man, whose identity has not been revealed, nor his 60-year-old victim knew each other. As a result of the incident, the woman suffered an abrasion on her chin, though it is understood that she did not receive a cut from the knife. The standoff ended when police officers tackled the 42-year-old suspect, said eyewitnesses who also saw the woman fall in the process.in Mandarin: “I’m not sure why she fell down, maybe from stress or nervousness, but when she fell onto the floor, the police pulled her away from the man and the rest of the officers tackled him.”

 

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