
The 56-year-old suspect who entered Hannah Beazley's election office was detained
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The incident comes two days after independent MP Helen Haines was seriously injured when she was hit by a vehicle in Victoria.
NEWS CENTER / According to AP's report, government official Hannah Beazley in the state of Western Australia was threatened by a 56-year-old man who entered her constituency office in Perth on Wednesday with a fighting device known as a nunchaku.
The incident comes just two days after independent federal MP Helen Haines was seriously injured when she was hit by a vehicle in Victoria state. Haines lost both legs after the attack.
According to the police statement, when the suspect, 56-year-old John Lawrence Smart, entered Beazley's constituency office, he was carrying a nunchaku, which consists of two sticks used in martial arts and tied together with a chain or rope.
While it was reported that Smart made verbal threats to the office employees, it was reported that Beazley was not in the office at the time of the incident, and two employees remained behind the security partition and were not harmed.
While the suspect was detained by the police, action was taken against him on charges of carrying a weapon in a way that would create fear and threatening to commit an unlawful act.

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