One critical after alleged stabbing in Fortitude Valley
A man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after a 22-year-old suffered critical injuries in an alleged stabbing in Fortitude Valley overnight.
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A man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after a 22-year-old suffered critical injuries in an alleged stabbing in Fortitude Valley overnight.
Queensland Police, paramedics and the High Acuity Unit responded to multiple reports of a verbal altercation between two men that had resulted in one man allegedly stabbing the other with a knife about 3.15am Sunday.
Paramedics treated one man with significant abdominal wounds at the scene before transporting him to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital in a critical condition.
Police said they took a 21-year-old man into custody and recovered the alleged weapon nearby.
The two men were not known to each other.
The 21-year-old Campbelltown man has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm.
He was refused police bail and is due to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
It was one of two serious alleged stabbings in the state’s southeast overnight, after two men were found with stab wounds after reports of a large disturbance at a park at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast in an incident unrelated to the Valley incident.