Reported in our NewPaper
'They came out of nowhere'
THE parang attack ended as swiftly as it had begun.
In less than five minutes, the attackers had fled the scene
after pouncing on a group of seven friends.
The silence was telling too. It was as if the gang of around
eight male attackers was focused on just slashing their
victims.
One victim said the
attackers were so quiet that all he could hear was the sounds of
parangs slicing their bodies.
But the ferocity of the attack was never in doubt.
It left two victims lying in a pool of their own blood.
One had his left hand
nearly chopped off - he "could feel it
dangling".
Another victim managed to flee the scene, but not before getting a deep cut that
stretched from his right ear to his mouth.
A fourth man and the three women who were with them escaped
unharmed.
All three victims, men in their mid-20s, survived the vicious
attack, which happened outside Liang Court shopping complex near
Clarke Quay at about 4am on Sunday.
It was the latest in a
string of similar horrific incidents.
The trio, who are colleagues at a pest control company, and
their family members declined to be identified when The New Paper
spoke to them in hospital.
All three victims claimed the attack had been unprovoked and
that neither they nor their friends had offended anyone
recently.
They also insisted they had not stepped on anyone's toes while
partying at the nearby Ministry of Sound (MOS) on Saturday night,
shortly before they were attacked.
Other knife and blade attacks
on victims in Singapore in 2007
