Mumbai man calmly scrolls phone with machete lodged in skull after attack
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07-05-2026 04:37 HKTA 27-year-old man in Mumbai was filmed calmly scrolling through his phone while a machete remained embedded in his head after a gang attack, medical officials said.
Rohit Pawar was attacked by three teenagers near a fried chicken shop in Mankhurd around 10.30pm on May 2, allegedly due to a previous grudge. One attacker struck his left head with a machete, driving the blade deep into his skull, while the other two punched and kicked him. Pawar remained conscious and was rushed to hospital on a friend’s motorcycle.
Dr Batuk Diyora, head of neurosurgery at Sion Hospital, described Pawar’s survival as a miracle. The blade penetrated over three centimetres through skin, muscle, skull and brain membrane, but precisely avoided all critical brain areas, leaving his speech and motor functions completely normal. He was able to use his phone and speak normally. Pawar has undergone surgery and is out of danger.
Online footage showed Pawar walking around the hospital with the blade still in his head, contrasting with shocked bystanders. His family criticized the hospital for long waiting times before treatment.
Police said all three suspects have been arrested. The incident has raised concerns about worsening public security in Mumbai, where knife attacks have been increasing.
# Samurai sword-wielding maniac nearly hacked off man’s arm in Venice —and he’s on the run
By Ben Chapman and Ross O’Keefe
Published May 8, 2026
Updated May 8, 2026, 12:48 p.m. PDT
A vicious Venice resident is on the run after he allegedly used a samurai sword to nearly hack off another man’s arm, leaving a bloody scene and shocking neighbors.
The psychotic sword fighter allegedly used a 16-inch samurai blade to assault a 27-year-old victim on the street in front of a low-income housing complex at 720 Rose Ave. on Thursday around 6:30 p.m., according to the police and fire officials.
The attacker was identified as 720 Rose Ave. resident Justin Tucker by the building’s management, nonprofit Venice Housing Corporation, which provides low-income housing and job services to the neighborhood’s inhabitants.
“You may be aware that there was an incident in front of Rose Apartments this evening,” states a wanted posted circulated in the area Friday by the nonprofit, which includes photos of Tucker.
This man’s arm was hacked with a samurai sword. CA Post
“Unfortunately, our neighbor Justin Tucker was involved,” the poster continues. “He is suspected to be armed and dangerous.”
Venice Housing Corporation didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Police would not confirm Tucker as a suspect in the attack. He is described as a white man in his late 20’s, with a short haircut.
Two witnesses said the man identified as Tucker had just returned to 720 Rose Ave. from a shopping trip to a nearby Smart and Final when he was accosted by a man in front of the building who asked Tucker if he had any drugs.
A neighbor said 720 Rose Ave. is a source of trouble in the area. David Buchan for Ca Post
Tucker went up to his unit and returned with a sword, the witnesses said. He then allegedly swung at the man’s left arm, delivering a brutal blow.
A horrified bystander called 911, prompting cops and paramedics to the scene. Medical workers rushed the bleeding victim to a local hospital in serious condition. Fire officials could not say whether his outlook had since improved.
A woman who lives nearby said she was called to the scene by a panicking friend who lives at 720 Rose Ave. When she got there, the victim was holding his injured arm above his head.
“The blood was pooling under his arm and on the wall really quickly.” CA Post
The limb was wrapped in a t-shirt and a plastic bandage, she said, but it was squirting blood.
“The blood was pooling under his arm and on the wall really quickly,” said the woman, who asked to remain anonymous because she fears reprisal from the vagrants in the area. “He kept saying, ‘it’s broken.’”
Luckily, the woman spotted a passerby in a hospital scrub who identified himself as a nurse. The nurse went to his car and returned with a torniquet, which they used to slow the man’s bleeding.
The alleged assailant was gone when cops got there. Police established a perimeter around the scene of the crime but their suspect evaded capture.
Witnesses said Tucker fled on foot, first walking in westbound in an alley behind Rose Avenue before reaching Seventh Avenue, where he emerged onto the street again and then disappeared.
Police are still hunting for the suspect, who was wearing a blue hat, blue jeans, a gray sweatshirt and a black hoodie when he left the area.
Venice Community Housing co-executive directors Erika Lee & Allison Riley said the nonprofit is cooperating with police. “We take safety concerns seriously,” they said.
Thursday’s attack in Venice comes as the city has struggled to address spiraling violence in the area, with Rose Avenue serving as a locus of crime and disorder in the blighted yet unaffordable neighborhood.
The building provides low-income housing. David Buchan for Ca Post
The woman who responded to help the victim said that she has been assaulted on that block and once heard a woman screaming that she was being raped in the alley nearby.
The woman added that the block deteriorated significantly when the low-income housing complex opened there several years ago, and the police do not come as often as they should.
“There are horrible things happening here every day,” the woman said. “There are people on drugs walking around like zombies. It’s not safe. Nobody comes to help.”
Mariposa neighbors react to sword-wielding suspect’s arrest
by: Briana Byus
Posted: May 27, 2026 / 11:21 PM PDT
Updated: May 28, 2026 / 05:37 AM PDT
MARIPOSA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office has caught a man suspected of attacking another man with a samurai sword.
They say 41-year-old Jonathan Bays had been hiding out since Saturday.
“All these kids like to play around freely. Can’t have a guy roaming around with a ninja sword,” neighbor Nicholas Silva said.
The sheriff’s office says Bays attacked Andrew Cooper at the Creekside Terrace Apartments Saturday night, during a party where people were using methamphetamine and other drugs.
Neighbor Patricia Guzman says that kind of environment is exactly what she was trying to escape from when she moved there.
“It was scary. I didn’t let my kids come out. I didn’t want them to, you know, be involved or get caught up in anything that was going on. So they stayed inside,” Guzman said.
Another neighbor, Victoria Kiki, says she had just gotten home from work Saturday night when she heard a man scream.
“Around 11:30 is when I started hearing the screaming. I was asleep, and then it had woken my daughter up, so I turned on the TV,” Kiki said.
She later checked her Ring camera footage and saw a man walking around with a sword outside her door.
The sheriff’s office says Bays ran off and hid for several days, worrying neighbors who did not know if he would come back.
“A lot of us parents, you know, we’re really concerned. You know, it was really quiet for the past couple of days. No kids were really coming outside,” Guzman said.
“We always worry about animals, but worrying about an attempted murderer was a lot different,” Kiki said.
Officers found and arrested Bays in a homeless encampment near the apartment complex Wednesday morning.
Cooper is recovering from injuries to his head, neck, shoulders, and hands.
His mom, Rebecca Cooper, sent a statement Wednesday, saying in part, “he is going to require several more surgeries in hopes of regaining the use of his right hand. His left hand, they had to amputate his index and middle finger… but he is happy he is just alive.”
His family set up a GoFundMe to help pay for some of his hospital expenses.
Man who stabbed teen to death with sword jailed
3 days ago
Hayley Coyle Yorkshire, Leeds Crown Court
West Yorkshire Police
Alfie Milburn was convicted of manslaughter at an earlier hearing
A man who fatally stabbed a teenager in the back with a sword during a “revenge attack” has been jailed.
Alfie Milburn assaulted Harry Abbott, 19, after the victim and four others ambushed him near his home in Seacroft, Leeds, in October 2025 following two violent incidents that took place a few days previously.
After being stabbed and “near death”, Harry was taken to a different address by his associates and was later pronounced dead.
Milburn, 20, of Ings Road, Leeds, was convicted of manslaughter and carrying a bladed weapon at Leeds Crown Court and was sentenced earlier to nine years in a young offenders’ institution and a further five years on licence.
The court heard Harry and the four others had arrived at Milburn’s street in a stolen Ford Focus all armed with weapons and wearing balaclavas to “exact revenge”.
Two of them had been stabbed recently and believed Milburn was involved.
After Milburn locked himself into his house - with his baby and girlfriend also inside - the others attacked his front door, so Milburn opened it armed with a sword.
Milburn also had various other bladed weapons in his home.
The court was told he then stabbed Harry in the back of the chest with such force it punctured an artery and pierced bone in four places.
CCTV showed Harry’s “lifeless” body then being taken by the group to a family member’s address in nearby Harehills before the stolen car was abandoned.
Though Milburn claimed he was acting in self-defence, Judge Simon Phillips KC said he could have phoned the police for help, but instead he “struck Harry in the back of the chest; you had fearsome weapons at your disposal”.
Milburn was seen later that day shopping in Morrisons for baby clothes and showed “no panic and was not demonstrably upset”, Judge Phillips added.
He later fled the country, travelling first to Dublin and then to Northern Ireland. A public appeal for information about his whereabouts was made before he was arrested at Belfast International Airport.
In a victim impact statement read out in court by Harry’s older sister Shannon, she said Harry was the only boy in a family of girls and was “adored”.
She described how she had to tell their mother how her son had been killed and how she herself is suffering from PTSD after the trauma of the trial.
“Nothing prepares you for seeing the final moments of a loved one,” she said.
Police were called to St Wilfrid’s Crescent in Harehills when Harry’s body was dumped there
Ms Abbott also said that Harry missed out on the chance to be a father as his baby was born three months after he died.
“You stole that from us,” she told Milburn.
“You meant to kill him, not scare or warn him…it is a wrong that can never be made right and we never got to say a final goodbye.”
She also claimed Harry was not “directly involved” in the dispute, but was merely there to support his cousin.
Mitigating, Gillian Batts KC said Harry was “leading the charge” in the revenge attack and the group were “forensically aware” about weapons and disguising themselves.
She also Milburn had written a letter apologising to Harry’s family.
Passing sentence, Judge Phillips said: "It was an act of violence that was excessive, brutal and disproportionate.
“It ended a life and brought grief and misery to his friends and family.”
The three other men who accompanied Harry have admitted conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm and possessing offensive weapons or bladed articles and will be sentenced at a later date.
Senior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Matt Holdsworth of West Yorkshire Police said: “This case shows the absolutely devastating effects of knife crime, one life was lost that day, but countless others have been irrecoverably ruined.”
He added: “As a society we must do all we can to educate and deter people from carrying knives, machetes and other weapons that can cause so much harm.”
Besut sword murder: Appeals court upholds 36-year jail term, 12 whipping on five men
Monday, 08 Jun 2026 | 4:00 PM MYT
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal on Monday (June 8) upheld the 36-year prison sentence and 12 strokes of the cane imposed on five men, including two sets of brothers, for the murder of a man who was slashed with a sword.
A three-judge panel comprising Datuk Azman Abdullah, Datuk Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz and Datuk Mohd Radzi Abdul Hamid unanimously dismissed the appellants’ bid to overturn their convictions and sentences, which were handed down by the Kuala Terengganu High Court on May 9, 2024.
The five men are Aizz Amidie Aziz, 32; brothers Mohd Rizalman Awang, 36, and Zahaman Fairol, 39; as well as brothers Mohd Uwais Mat Nawi, 31, and Mohd Hafify, 30.
They were found guilty of murdering Mohd Shahrulanuar Dek Der, 22, in a swampy area at Kampung Pengkalan Nyireh, Kampung Raja, Besut, between 4.40pm and 8.30pm on June 21, 2017, under Section 302 of the Penal Code (Punishment for murder) read with Section 34 (Each of several persons liable for an act done by all, in like manner as if done by him alone).
In delivering the judgment, Justice Azman said the appeals had no merit as the prosecution’s witnesses, including a protected witness, had consistently testified that all the appellants were involved in stabbing the victim.
He said the protected witness, who was an eyewitness hiding in nearby bushes during the incident, had given a detailed account of what transpired.
“The witness’s refusal to answer certain questions that could reveal his identity did not affect the prosecution’s case. The trial judge was also satisfied that the testimony was supported by other prosecution witnesses,” he said.
Justice Azman added that the trial judge had also properly evaluated the defence’s case and found the claim that another individual committed the stabbing to be an afterthought.
He said the High Court judge was correct in concluding that the appellants had failed to raise a reasonable doubt at the end of their defence case, and therefore there was no reason for appellate intervention.
Three of the men – Aizz Amidie, Mohd Rizalman and Zahaman Fairol – were ordered to serve their sentences from the date of their arrest on July 11, 2017, while the remaining two will have their sentences backdated to Aug 11 the same year.
Earlier, defence counsel Datuk Hisyam Teh Poh Teik sought a reduction of the sentence to 30 years from the date of arrest, but Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohd Zain Ibrahim argued for the sentence to be maintained to serve as a deterrent.
Reports previously stated that the victim was killed following a dispute linked to the burning of a motorcycle belonging to a relative of one of the accused. — Bernama
