Kuwait: A mentally-disturbed Kuwaiti woman almost killed a traffic patrol sergeant.
The woman, who is in her thirties, stabbed the Interior Ministry serviceman near his heart.
Her father accompanied her to the psychiatric hospital but she escaped during a moment of distraction.
The sergeant was leading a traffic patrol unit near the hospital when he saw an ambulance chasing a woman.
He intervened instantly but she attacked him before stabbing herself in the abdomen, a security source told Arabic newspaper Al-Qabas.
She later assaulted the paramedics staff who were transferring her by ambulance to the hospital for treatment. On arrival at the hospital, she attacked the doctors and nursing staff also.