Tourist slashed with sword in Bali
A South Korean tourist needed hospital treatment in Bali this week after a sword-wielding assailant attacked him in a botched carjacking attempt.
The Jakarta Globe reported that Kim Seong-cheol, 42, was returning to his car parked in South Kuta when a man riding a motorcycle brandished a sword and attacked him.
The victim fought back but was injured when the would-be thief slashed Kim’s left arm with the sword.
The attacker then fled the scene in Kim’s car. A group of vigilantes pursued the car thief on motorcycles and on foot.
The thief abandoned the car after it crashed into a government office building. He than ran to the beach in an attempt to flee on a speedboat.
The crowd managed to apprehend him after the boat’s engine failed to start.
The mob began attacking the man before police arrived to rescue him.
"The perpetrator and the victim are being treated in hospital," said South Kuta police chief Comr. Wayan Nuriartha.
Ian Jarrett
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