A mother used a machete in efforts to stop National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) personnel from arresting her two sons, who were believed to be involved in drug abuse, at the family residence in Batu Kurau, near Taiping in Perak yesterday.

Perak AADK assistant director (Enforcement) A Reuben said that two youths, aged 18 and 20, hid in the house and tried to climb onto the roof of the house to escape, but were later arrested...