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SINGAPORE: When 56-year-old cleaner Osman Sidin heard shouts for help from a crowd outside Clementi Mall on Monday (Aug 10), he saw a man holding a knife and decided to intervene.<\/p>\n
The man had stabbed himself repeatedly with the knife before Mr Osman stepped in and wrestled it away from him. Mr Osman then pinned the man to the ground until help arrived.<\/p>\n
“I was just concerned about the public. There were kids screaming, and he was carrying a knife,\u201d Mr Osman told CNA on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“The knife (appeared to be) a durian chopper. It was very sharp, but there was no one that was helping (with the situation).”<\/p>\n
Mr Osman, who was on his way to a medical appointment, handed his belongings to his wife before grappling with the 34-year-old man and pinning him to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the two men fell, Mr Osman injured the back of his head. The man he was restraining had suffered what appeared to be self-inflicted injuries, and blood spilled over both of them.<\/p>\n
“It felt like I was grappling with him for minutes. I kept shouting for someone in the crowd to please help me, kick the knife away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The police were called to the scene at Block 441B Clementi Avenue 3 at about 12.20pm.<\/p>\n
Mr Osman said he was grateful to members of the public who handed him shirts to wipe away the blood and stem his own bleeding.<\/p>\n
“My body had blood, and my head was all bloody,” he said. It was brutal.”<\/p>\n
His wife, who had been filming the incident, was proud of him, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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