Attempted murder charge, Kuttabul
Police have charged a 35-year-old South Australian man after an alleged assault in Kuttabul yesterday,
It will be alleged that around 12.15am a man armed with a knife confronted a 23-year-old man in the back yard of the Sorensens Road residence and stabbed him once in the torso.
The armed man allegedly then entered the house and stabbed a 21-year-old woman twice in the torso causing her to drop an infant she was holding at the time.
The man, woman and male infant were taken to the Mackay Base Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
A 35-year-old man is due to be extradited from South Australia later this week and has been charged with attempted murder, enter dwelling with intent, acts intended to maim and assault. He is expected to appear in the Mackay Magistrate’s Court sometime in January.
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