Today is 24 November 2014 Monday...This incident took place on 2 November 2014 around 6:24 AM in the early morning...
I was standing on the south east corner of the junction of Kalaafaanu Higun and Lonuziyaaraiy Magu when I heard screams , falling of chairs, breaking of glasses from K-Mart Cafe'...I walked to the cafe' and saw two young men leaving on motor cycles...Two youths also came out...One was wounded very badly and his right arm was bleeding...The other youth was having difficulty to walk...There was blood on the tiles of K-Mart Cafe'...They were shouting and one of them said that he knew they would come to knife us today...
The cashier of K-Mart Cafe' called the Police and I also called the Police emergency number 119 but the Police girl who took the emergency line said that they had received the information...A Police man in special operations uniform came in a motor cycled and the wounded youth pleaded with him...He took him to the hospital on his motor bike...The other youth pleaded to take him to safety and that they would come again...
A few minutes later two Police men arrived in the opposite direction of the one way of Kalaafaanu Higun from Ameenee Magu in a motor cycle...One was a station inspector and the other was a lance corporal...The lance corporal came and held the youth who was in great pain....I talked to the incharge who was the station inspector and told him what I saw...He noted my name and identity card number...I asked him for permission to relay the information to SunFM which was the closes media agency near my home...He said that I could give the news to anyone I want...
I walked to the SunFM office in the next block to my home and knocked the closed glass doors...A Banladeshi office assistant answered and I told him about the knifing...He gave the mobile number and I called that number and a sleepy reporter took the call and I told him what had happened....I again went to K-Mart Cafe' and a police car came and took the injured youth to hospital...There was a police tape with no entrance near K-Mart Cafe now...
Minutes later two Police men in civilian clothes came...They were from SOCD ( Serious and Organized Crime Department ) of Police...I gave my information to them...A while later a SunFM reporter with the office assistant came and asked me about the knifing...I told them what had happened and they said it's not good to hang around here....
I went home and around 9:30 that morning I again went to Police main office at Shaheed Hussain Adam Building...I told the police officers who was in the reception that can they give me the fax numbers of Police because I want to give them the information about the knifing that took place early that day...They told me to wait and they asked whether I could give them a statement...I said yes...
A lance corporal in police uniform came and took me to the interview room...I asked him many questions and he remained silent...I pointed at the camera in the interview room and I asked him about recording the interview...I asked him were there women police offices in SOCD and if a women is summoned to police does a female police officer questions her....I asked him about bringing two witnesses in my company and I asked him whether I could record the conversation on my own...He told whether I could identify the attackers and I said I didn't see their faces...He was silent as he took my statement...He finished writing and took me to the other police gate facing the republican square..He gave me a visitor card from the reception and I clipped it on t-shirt neck...He took me to the llift and we went upstairs...He took me to the sitting room of SOCD and told me to sit down on the sofas...There were many police officers in civilian clothes and police uniform...I waited and wanted very badly to go to the toilet but didn't say it....I asked the police cop who took my statement that can I send an SMS and he said yes...I sent an SMS to my close old friend Aik Mohamed Shafeeq saying " Shafittey I have given a statement and now I am in the sitting room of SOCD "....Fifteen minutes went by and the police lance corporal who took my statement came and showed me three papers which I have to sing and put my finger print....I signed and gave my finer prints and he took me outside the SOCD office and we went to near the lift...I asked him that when a call is received by the command center of Police the information of the caller is displayed on their screens and they can record the call...Again he didn't answer...I think he was suppressing smiles .... He knew that what I was asking was very true....heheheh....This is my story of the first knifing incident I saw and gave the information to Police and the media ( SunFM )...Masha Allah...All thanks are to Allah....
