A 60-year-old man, Kwame Atuah, is in the grips of the police for slashing the face of a resident of New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region with a razor blade.

MyNewsGh.com gathered that the suspect and the victim, identified as Akwasi Tawiah, were engaged in a heated verbal confrontation, and in the process, tempers flared.

The suspect reached out for a razor blade and slashed the face of the victim but was stopped by onlookers who arrested him and handed him to the police.

Akwasi Tawiah was rushed to St.