Assault and weapon charges approved against Granville machete attacker

Several charges were laid Monday against a man accused of attacking his neighbours with a machete inside an apartment building on the Granville Strip in downtown Vancouver.

Four victims were left with serious injuries, some of them “life-altering,” according to Vancouver police.

Monday afternoon, the force announced one charge each of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose had been approved against 48-year-old Ibrahim Abdela Bakhit.

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A search of BC’s online court records shows these charges are Bakhit’s first in BC.

More to come…