Two cops slashed by mental patient in KK hostage drama

Policemen outside the locked room trying to persuade the man to surrender and release his mother.

KOTA KINABALU: Two policemen were slashed by a mental patient with a meat cleaver after they stormed into a house to free the man’s mother at Manggatal near here.

A police team was earlier sent to the house at Taman Jaya Diri after being alerted to a mentally unstable person who had run amok with the weapon and locked himself in a bedroom with his mother and elder sister at 2.30pm on Monday (July 17).