Gold Coast crime: A woman has been charged after two people were stabbed in a Surfers Paradise park

A WOMAN has been charged with woundig after allegedly stabbing two people — in the chest and arm — in the heart of the city overnight.

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A WOMAN has been charged after allegedly stabbing two people — in the chest and arm — at a Surfers Paradise park overnight.

Police were called to Eileen Peters Park on the Esplanade on Saturday night where three people, who are known to each other, were socialising.

It will be alleged around 8.30pm an argument began between the group, which lead to a 45-year-old Southport woman being stabbed in the chest.
A 48-year-old man was also allegedly stabbed in the arm.

A 53-year-old woman was arrested at the scene.
Police will allege she was in possession of a small kitchen knife.

She has been charged with two counts of unlawful wounding and will remain in the Southport Watchhouse until she is expected to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on Monday.

The woman and man were transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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A car has been engulfed by flames at Ormeau. Picture: Facebook.

Two patients have been transported to Logan Hospital in stable conditions with reported smoke inhalation following the vehicle fire.

A post on the Ormeau Community Facebook page warns travellers to avoid the area: “DANGER: Please DO NOT go up to the exit at the footy field. There is a car fully alight and there is traffic chaos in addition to M1 southbound.”

There’s major delays on the M1 as traffic is backed up southbound from Beenleigh to the Southport exit.

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