Wounding charge, Rockhampton
A woman has been charged following an alleged stabbing incident in Rockhampton overnight.
It will be alleged just after midnight a 29-year-old woman has attended a residence in Kent Street and has been involved in a verbal altercation with another woman at the address.
The altercation is then alleged to have escalated with the 29-year-old producing a knife and cutting the other woman.
A 41-year-old woman received a deep laceration to the arm and a number of smaller lacerations to the neck.
A man at the residence has intervened and the 29-year-old has then left the scene.
The 41-year-old woman was treated at the scene and taken to Rockhampton Base Hospital for treatment to her injuries.
Police attended a short time later and located the woman in a nearby street. She was arrested and later charged with one count of wounding.
A 29-year-old Kawana woman is due to appear in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court on September 5.
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