Four police personnel suffered injuries to multiple parts of their bodies, including their heads, after being slashed with a machete while trying to restrain a man who ran amok in Taman Seri Astana near Sungai Petani on Friday.

Kuala Muda district police chief Wan Azharuddin Wan Ismail said two of the injured personnel, both in their 20s, had been allowed to go home after receiving treatment, while the other two, aged in their 40s and 50s, were still being treated in hospital and were reported to be in stable condition.