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Police investigate Maroochydore backpackers’ early morning assault

A man is in a Sunshine Coast hospital following an early morning assault at a Maroochydore backpackers.

Police are investigating an early morning assault at a Sunshine Coast backpackers that left a man in hospital. Picture: Brendan Radke
Police are investigating an early morning assault at a Sunshine Coast backpackers that left a man in hospital. Picture: Brendan Radke

Police are investigating an early morning assault at a Sunshine Coast backpackers that left a man in hospital.

Emergency services were called to a backpackers on Parker St in Maroochydore about 1.50am following reports of two men and a woman having an argument.

Paramedics transported a 41-year-old man to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition with facial and non-life threatening head injuries.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said an investigation was ongoing.

“The other man left the scene in a vehicle,” she said.

Anyone with information should come forward via Policelink or Crime Stoppers.

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