Fairy Meadow: two injured in stabbing at massage parlour
Two men were stabbed during a fight inside Thai massage parlour, near Wollongong, before fleeing the scene. They were found a short time later in different locations and taken to hospital for treatment, with one left in a critical condition.
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Two men have been injured in an alleged double stabbing inside a Thai massage parlour north of Wollongong.
It is understood an altercation between the pair took place at Fairy Meadow Thai Massage on the Princes Hwy about 10am on Saturday.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Norm Rees said a verbal exchange was followed by a stabbing in the upstairs vicinity of the business, before both men fled.
One of them was driven by a friend to Wollongong Hospital’s emergency department, while the other walked around the corner to his mother’s home on Daisy St.
Once the man arrived at his mother’s unit complex about 10.30am, emergency services were contacted.
“Emergency services were called to what we thought was a cardiac arrest,” Inspector Rees said.
“But on arrival we discovered there had been an altercation and as a result two men had been stabbed.”
Police and paramedics issued emergency treatment to the 42-year-old man on scene, who had suffered a 3-4cm stab wound to the left side of his chest in the thorax area.
After the man was stabilised, he was taken to Guest Park where an ambulance rescue helicopter was waiting to fly him to St George Hospital.
Inspector Rees said the man was in a “critical but stable condition” at the time of take off.
Police are now investigating the incident.
Police and paramedics issued emergency treatment on scene, before transporting the man to an ambulance rescue helicopter at Guest Park.
Paramedics are working to stabilise the man before he is flown to hospital.
It’s understood the stabbing took place inside a Daisy Street unit complex.