Mangaluru:  The timely intervention of a police patrol saved the life of a 23-year-old youth from nearby Kodi, who was attacked by two persons at Ullal late last night.
     
Police said a patrol heard the cries of Naushad Hussein and rushed to the spot to see two persons attacking him with a sword.
     
Seeing the police, one of the attackers ran away while the other sped away on a bike, police said.
     
Naushad was on his way to a nearby samosa manufacturing unit where he was working when the assailants stopped his bike and attacked him.
     
He confronted the attackers for a while when a police patrol rushed to the spot hearing his cries and the attackers fled from the scene.
     
City police commissioner M Chandra Sekhar and other top police officials visited the spot and investigations are on.
     
Police are keeping a strict vigil on the communally sensitive Ullal region in Dakshina Kannada district, police said.