Police disarmed a half-naked man wielding a hatchet on a bus in Belfast yesterday.
The man, stripped to the waist, boarded the bus in the city's Oldpark area at around 7.30 yesterday morning and made his way to the upper deck.
No-one was hurt in the incident and the man was arrested after police confiscated the weapon.
A spokeswoman for Translink said: "A man boarded the bus and made his way to the upper deck where he began wielding a hatchet. Passengers on board alerted the driver and the police were called. They attended the incident and arrested the man. Thankfully neither the passengers nor the driver were injured; however, they were very shaken by this incident."
Transport and General Workers Union representative Seán Smyth said somebody could have been killed. "This has to stop. It is only a matter of time before one of our drivers is seriously injured or killed and this morning was an example of this," he said.
The driver was operating the Carr's Glen service. "He picked up the guy at the stop and he just walked past him without paying. He followed him up the stairs and a passenger came down saying that he had a hatchet and to call the police," the union representative added. "He radioed communications and they called the police."