Closed-circuit camera footage showed the alleged attacker holding his cutter and being surrounded by three men in a standoff. - SCREENGRAB: CHINATVNEWS/YOUTUBE
TAIPEI (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A young woman in Taiwan narrowly escaped death by slashing in broad daylight on Sunday (July 9) after four passers-by stepped in to beat back her alleged attacker.
A man surnamed Hsu and his two adult sons were stopped by a red light in their car when they saw a woman being attacked by a man with a box cutter who had followed her into an alley. The incident happened at noon local time in Taitung, a coastal city in south-east Taiwan.
