Police have arrested five persons, including a woman, for allegedly terrorising residents of Dahisar Mori and Thakurpada villages in Thane district of Maharashtra by wielding weapons like sword and axe, an official said on Saturday. They were arrested on Friday, soon after some local residents caught hold of them and handed them over to the police, he said.

"Between 12.15 am and 3.45 am on Friday, the accused moved around these localities carrying swords, choppers and axes in their hands and terrorising the local residents. They banged the doors of several houses and threatened the residents for no valid reason, due to which panic spread among the people," an official of Shil Daighar police station said. Finally, some residents mustered courage and pinned down the accused before handing them over to the police, who later placed them under arrest, he said.