The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) and the Fire and Rescue Department had to work together to subdue a mentally unstable man in Puchong after he launched into a three-hour rampage while wielding a samurai knife.
The episode, which occured at around 11.30pm last night at the swordsman’s family home in Kampung Seri Puchong, saw the man damaging objects in the house, prompting his relatives to contact the authorities.
The Puchong police station received a distress call on the matter at around 11.50pm, while the local Fire and Rescue Department was contacted at 3.25am.
Puchong Fire and Rescue senior assistant fire chief Mohd Hisam Mat Yasih told Sinar Harian that firefighters on the scene had to hose down the 40-year old man after he refused to stand down or lower his weapon. The man had kept up his threats of violence for three hours by that point.
The berserker was once a patient in the infamous Tanjung Rambutan mental health facility, but had been discharged without needing to be supervised for security reasons.
His brother, who had called the police to report the episode, said that prior to last night’s rampage the man had demonstrated no inclinations to violence.
Operations at the house wrapped up by 7.18am. The subdued mental patietn was taken to the Serdang Hospital for further treatment.
