A 95-year-old grandmother is in a essential situation after being tasered by police in Australia.

Officers have been referred to as to a care house after workers found Clare Nowland exterior her room holding a steak knife.

They talked to her for a number of minutes - however when she didn't drop the knife and started approaching the officers, one among them fired a taser, knocking her to the bottom.

She was utilizing a strolling body on the time and suffers from dementia.

Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter mentioned: "At the time she was tasered she was approaching police but it is fair to say at a slow pace."

Ms Nowland has since been taken to hospital and is alleged to be fading out and in of consciousness, along with her household by her bedside.

It occurred on the Yallambee care house in Cooma, which is about 186 miles (300km) southwest of Sydney.

The officer who fired the taser has been taken off obligation, and the murder squad is now concerned.

Although physique cameras recorded the incident, New South Wales Police mentioned it is not the general public curiosity to launch the footage as a result of an investigation is ongoing.