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Po­lice of­fi­cers were forced to use a taser and even­tu­al­ly had to shoot a men­tal­ly-ill man, af­ter he at­tacked them with a knife twice.

The 29-year-old man, of Saut D’eau Road, Paramin, was re­port­ed by res­i­dents around 6.25 pm on Tues­day, af­ter he was seen set­ting fire to his house at Wall Trace, Paramin.

Of­fi­cers on pa­trol ar­rived at the scene and found the man stand­ing a short dis­tance away with a knife in his hand. He al­leged­ly re­fused to drop the knife and was tasered when he be­gan run­ning to­wards the of­fi­cers.