Changi Village fight - knives involved

The four men at a coffee shop sensed something was wrong with the five men at the table next to theirs, so one of them called the police.

Just minutes later, a fight broke out at the next table after two of the five men pulled out knives.

The police arrived just five minutes into the fight and the assailants fled, leaving behind an injured victim.

The fight, which involved a chopper, a parang and a watermelon knife, took place at a coffee shop at Block 5, Changi Village, on Sunday night.

Miss Ler Ling Hong, 28, who works in the coffee shop, said in Mandarin: "Three men arrived at first, but one then left and returned with another two men.

"The five of them sat at one of the outermost tables in the corner."

They ordered a bottle of beer and two cups of coffee, but none of it was touched.

Miss Ler said: "It happened so fast. They sat down for only a little while before I heard a tattooed man shout, 'one hundred' in Hokkien, and everything became chaotic."

She said she saw two men whip out knives wrapped in newspaper from the back of their trousers to attack the tattooed man.

She added: "When the two men attacked the victim with their knives, he grabbed a chair to block the blows."

The victim later took off his dark-coloured shirt to show the police officers a wound on his left shoulder.

The police also found a knife on the ground and footage from a security camera that records the exterior seating area.

The police have classified the case as voluntarily causing grievous hurt and that operations are ongoing to apprehend the suspects involved.

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