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A Bangladeshi man was arrested within 24 hours of allegedly slashing his housemate at a restaurant in Taman Cheras Baru, Kuala Lumpur. Police say accumulated misunderstandings between the two men triggered the violent incident.
A 22-year-old Singaporean man received a 17-month prison sentence for assaulting a victim with a chair during a deadly brawl on Kitchener Road last September, in which the victim was fatally stabbed.
A mass shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho left three people dead and seven others injured on Saturday afternoon, with authorities locating the suspected shooter near the establishment.
A fatal stabbing in Hamilton South and a separate assault in western Sydney have left one man dead and two others hospitalized. NSW Police are investigating both incidents.
South Korean police have requested an arrest warrant for an octogenarian accused of attacking two people with a knife at a beauty salon in Geoje, claiming dissatisfaction with his haircut. Both victims sustained injuries.
A major public high school in the Philippines shut down after threatening posts circulated online, with police declaring the campus secure. The closure follows a deadly school shooting that killed three students days earlier.
Two men have been arrested following a violent altercation outside a Singapore nightclub that left four people injured and hospitalised. The incident highlights rising knife-related violence in the city-state.