Man charged after alleged stabbing incident leaves several injured

The shocking incident left several people injured with some requiring hospitalisation. A man has now been charged.

Crews from QPS and QAS have responded to an alleged assault incident, leaving several people injured.

Update – 12pm

Further details have emerged surrounding the alleged assault that occurred in the region, that left several people injured and requiring hospitalisation.

Police have alleged a 23-year-old male was involved in a physical altercation with another patron at the premises of a licenced venue on Patrick St, in Laidley.

The man reportedly turned on another male patron who attempted to intervene.

Picking up a wooden implement, the man in question has allegedly proceeded to strike the other man with the item, causing it to break.

A security officer then restrained the man and attempted to remove him from the premises as a result, but the man continued to resist before he allegedly assaulted the venue’s staff member.

Breaking free from the security officer, the man went back into the venue and its kitchen where he then assaulted another staff member and grabbed a knife, when the employee attempted to restrain him.

Several other people entered the kitchen and attempted to intervene, when the man allegedly stabbed a 26-year-old man in the arm with the knife.

Witnesses allege the man lunged at others with the knife, before it escalated into another physical altercation and a 31-year-old man was also stabbed in the process.

Police arrived on scene and restrained the man in the kitchen, but it is alleged he continued to resist arrest.

The 23-year old man from Laidley North was charged with one count of wounding, assault occasioning bodily harm, wilful damage, obstruct police, enter premises to commit indictable offence, fail to leave licenced premises, commit public nuisance and stealing.

He is expected to appear in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on January 17.

A spokesman from QPS said investigations into the matter were continuing.

8am

Emergency services have responded to an alleged assault incident, leaving three people injured.

The incident occurred early on Saturday morning, about midnight, at an undisclosed location off Patrick St, in Laidley.

Six patients were assessed by paramedics from QAS following the alleged assault, while three were transported to hospital.

A woman aged in her 20s reported head and shoulder pain and was transported to Toowoomba Hospital, while a man in his 20s sustained an arm injury and was transported to Ipswich Hospital.

One man aged in his 20s sustained lacerations and minor arm injuries during the incident and was transported to Laidley Hospital.

More to come.