KUALA LUMPUR: Two local men aged 44 and 47 were arrested early yesterday on suspicion of slashing a waiter in Cheras here on Tuesday morning.
Kajang police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Zaid Hassan said in the 9.25am incident at a restaurant in Taman Segar Perdana, the 46-year-old waiter fractured bone his left index finger and injured his right knee as a result of being slashed by the two suspects.
"Investigations found one of the assailants was upset when the victim reprimanded him for raising a ruckus when the drink he ordered was served late.
"The suspect was chased out of the restaurant but returned later with another friend armed with machetes and attacked the victim," he said in a statement today.
He said the two men were arrested at 3am yesterday in Taman Cheras Permata, Kajang, and police also seized two machetes and the clothes they had worn during the incident, adding that one of them tested positive for drugs.
He said both men would be remanded until Jan 22 to assist investigations under Section 326 of the Penal Code for causing grievous hurt with a weapon.
Earlier, an 80-second video clip from a closed-circuit television camera had gone viral showing two machete-wielding individuals attacking the waiter in a restaurant. –Bernama