A scary incident for riders on a late-night SEPTA bus as one passenger attacked another with a meat cleaver as the bus went down North Broad Street, Philadelphia police said. The driver of the southbound SEPTA Broad Street Line Owl bus stopped the bus in front of Philadelphia Police Headquarters at North Broad and Callowhill streets around 2:30 a.

There are uses for a meat cleaver," said Chief Inspector Scott Small. "Why this individual had to be clever on the SEPTA bus we don’t know."

The assault occurred at Broad and Callowhill streets early Thursday morning, investigators say. The attacker has been arrested.

A man wielding a meat cleaver attacked another rider on a SEPTA bus early Thursday morning in Philadelphia's Spring Garden neighborhood.

A 61-year-old man was hospitalized after being attacked by a meat cleaver-wielding passenger on a SEPTA bus in Philadelphia, police said. An officer parked in the 400 block of North Broad Street was told by a passerby that there was a man on a nearby bus armed with a machete,

Wild scenes erupted onboard a SEPTA bus early Thursday morning when a man was slashed by a meat cleaver just outside Philadelphia Police headquarters.

Philadelphia police arrested a SEPTA bus passenger who was armed with a meat cleaver and attacked another rider early Thursday morning. The incident happened right by police headquarters at Broad and Callowhill streets.