Police continue investigation following Nambour machete attack

Police say the young man and his friend were approached by a group of six people before the incident took place. Read the latest.

Police are continuing an investigation into a machete attack in Nambour at the weekend.

A man aged in his 20s suffered a wound to his arm after being slashed by a machete in Huntingdale Drive in Nambour on October 2, 2022.

Nambour CIB detective Gary Purtell said they were gathering evidence.

“Investigations are continuing,” he said.

Mr Connor said no one had been arrested and investigations were ongoing.

Caloundra CIB detective Russ Connor said police and ambulance services were called about 2am Sunday, moments after the man was wounded following a machete attack.

Mr Connor said the man and his friend went to a residential property in the suburb that night where he was approached by a group of six people and attacked by one of the men.

Huntingdale Drive, Nambour. Picture: Asa Andersen.

He said the victim and his friend managed to seek safety and called emergency services.

Paramedics took the victim to Nambour General Hospital and he was later released with non-life-threatening injuries.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said they received a call at 2.06am to treat the man in his 20s for a wound to his arm.

A Huntingdale Drive resident told this publication that she was woken abruptly by the sound of a man screaming down the street.

“(It was loud) enough to wake me up,” she said.

According to police the victim and his friend had to flee down Huntingdale Drive, Nambour, after the attack. Picture: Asa Andersen.