Click to view full size

An Ari­ma man re­mained hos­pi­talised in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion yes­ter­day af­ter he was chopped by some­one he knows, whilst walk­ing on the road.

The 40-year-old of Mot­t­ley Trace, Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, was in the com­pa­ny of a fe­male rel­a­tive around 10 pm on Au­gust 6, when up­on reach­ing an aban­doned house along the road, a man known to them from the area, ran out with a cut­lass and be­gan chop­ping the vic­tim.

As the woman be­gan scream­ing, the as­sailant ran off.