Wounding, Palm Beach
Police are investigating after a man was assaulted with a broken bottle at Palm Beach last night.
Preliminary information suggests around 9.30pm a 19-year-old man has attended a park located on the Gold Coast Highway and witnessed a male youth smashing beer bottles in the playground.
The man has requested the youth stop what he was doing, resulting in a further verbal altercation between the pair.
The man has struck the youth in the face and at the same time the youth has stabbed the man in the neck with a broken bottle before fleeing the scene.
The 19-year-old Currumbin Waters man sustained a deep laceration to the neck and was transported to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
The youth is described as being aged around 14-years-old, Caucasian in appearance, approximately 180cm tall with a slim build and black hair.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting.
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