KUWAIT CITY, Sept 12: The security forces from the Farwaniya Governorate have arrested a Kuwaiti man who attacked his family and stabbed a security member with a knife, reports Al-Rai daily. The Directorate General of Public Relations and Security Media Department of the Interior Ministry said when the operations room received a report on the incident, a police patrol was dispatched to the house and when one of the officers tried to disarm the man, the latter turned on the official and stabbed him in the forearm.

Following this the other officer fired in the air and ordered the suspect to get away from his colleague, but the man continued to charge at his colleague. At this point the officer fired two warning shots in the air and when the suspect refused to let go of his intention to attack the officer, he was shot in the leg and injured. The officer and the Kuwaiti have been taken to the hospital – the Kuwaiti under tight police security, following which he will be referred to the concerned authorities for legal action