Wounding, Blacks Beach (Mackay)

**Update** A 16-year-old male has been taken into custody and is currently assisting with inquiries.

Police are searching for a male after a woman sustained multiple stab wounds at a location in Blacks Beach this afternoon.

Officers were called to an area off Blacks Beach Road around 12.20pm where the 23-year-old woman was located with serious injuries.

Preliminary information suggests the woman was sunbaking at the beach when she was confronted by a male unknown to her who stabbed her multiple times in the neck and body with a knife before fleeing the scene.

The woman managed to attend a nearby construction site to seek help.

She was transported to hospital in a serious condition, however her injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.