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Man in wheelchair allegedly attacks man

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A man in a wheelchair in Amsterdam has been arrested after allegedly attacking and attempting to rob a man who tried to help him.

Sky News reported Tuesday that a Good Samaritan encountered the man with two flat tires on his wheelchair in front of his house in Amsterdam.

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The homeowner, whose name has not been made public, invited the wheelchair bound man inside for coffee, when the wheelchair man allegedly attacked him and demanded money, police said.

"The two fell to the floor wrestling," a police spokesman said.

The wheelchair-bound man allegedly stabbed the homeowner with a knife, police said.

The homeowner who was attacked had spent years in a wheelchair himself, before being fitted with prosthetic legs, police said.

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