Man’s hand ‘chopped off at working men’s club by boys in balaclavas’

Two thugs in balaclavas chopped a man’s hand off in a terrifying attack at a working men’s club, reports say.

A witness said she heard an ‘awful squeal’ yesterday afternoon before seeing the detached hand on the blood-splattered floor of Deighton Working Men’s Club in Huddersfield.

‘It was like something out of a horror film,’ the woman, in her 50s, told Yorkshire Live.

‘I heard him squealing in the smoking shelter and two boys in balaclavas chopped him up. I don’t normally get nightmares but I expect I will tonight.’

She then saw someone pick the hand up and wrap it in kitchen towel in a bid to ‘preserve’ it.

‘I hear he has lost his hand over a £10 bag of weed,’ she claimed, adding she believes there will be a ‘reprisal’ attack.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed the suspects fled the scene and the victim was taken to hospital with a severe hand injury.

A spokesperson said: ‘Police were called to a working men’s club in Deighton Road, Huddersfield at about 5.27pm on Tuesday to a report a man had been seriously injured.

‘Emergency services attended the scene and located the victim who had suffered leg injuries and a severe hand injury.

‘It was reported he had been attacked outside the pub by two men who made off from the scene.’

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