Cutlass-wielding man shot dead by police in Hindustan

A man was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an op­er­a­tion at a house in Hin­dus­tan yes­ter­day, af­ter he al­leged­ly threat­ened of­fi­cers with a cut­lass.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, an act­ing cor­po­ral and two po­lice con­sta­bles went to a house along Naggee Road at about 10.15 am to lo­cate and de­tain Tim­mon Fran­cois in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion which oc­curred around 1 pm on Sat­ur­day along 5th Com­pa­ny Road, In­di­an Walk.

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Po­lice said the of­fi­cers found the front door open and re­peat­ed­ly an­nounced their pres­ence by shout­ing, “Po­lice! Po­lice!”