"It was hard for the both of us to sleep, both of us are restless but again"
A 70-year-old Asian mother has been attacked at her home in Winnipeg, Canada.
Linda Huynh posted on Instagram about her mother’s attack, which occurred on 17 October.
Nho Huynh was home alone when a woman in her 30s dressed in grey sweat pants a hoody began kicking at her front door.
When Huynh opened the door, the woman unleashed an unprovoked and brutal attack.
Running outside in fear, Huynh screamed for help. Fortunately, a man stopped and assisted Huynh but the attacker ran off.
“If it wasn’t for him saving my mom, she could’ve died,” Linda Huynh wrote on Instagram.
Images of her distressed mother covered in blood were shared on Linda’s Instagram post.
“If you guys are in the area of Mountain and McPhillips – please be careful.. It’s really hard to post this image – my mom and I never want this to happen to anything so we want to warn others for their safety,” Linda warned.
Linda went on to praise the man for helping her family during this stressful timne.
“Before I left to go to the hospital, the man who saved my mom helped us by checking to see if there was anyone in the house or if there was any broken windows. So far the only thing that was broken was the storm door (easy replacement),” Linda wrote.
Fortunately her mother suffered no severe injuries and was left with just “a couple of cuts and bruises on her head.”
Nonetheless, both she and her mother are left shaken by the incident.
“It was hard for the both of us to sleep, both of us are restless but again – happy she’s alive and we both started talking about how strong she was. She’s 70yo and never thought she could run like that,” she explained.
The family believe that her mother’s attacker could have been on drugs.
“We both agreed that woman who attacked her wasn’t herself,” Linda said. “We are assuming that she must have been on drugs because after the man stopped her from attacking, the woman started acting all viscous towards him and ran off.”
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