A BRITISH pensioner has been arrested after allegedly attacking a hotel manager with an axe.

According to the 55-year-old victim Victor Alberto Barillas Hernández, the attack was launched without warning and left him with "multiple blunt force injuries".

The victim was rushed to the National Hospital where he remains under observation.

Cops said they were called to the hotel in the colonial city of Antigua yesterday following reports of a pensioner assaulting the hotel manager with a tactical axe.

They have not yet confirmed the motive behind the attack but claim the assailant acted on "religious" grounds.

According to initial investigations, the Brit belongs to a Muslim sect.

He allegedly told cops he was instructed by God to "eliminate" people with "certain characteristics" simil

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