Vic: Man, police constable slashed with knife

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2008
Vic: Man, police constable slashed with knife

MELBOURNE, Aug 15 AAP - A man has been arrested after a plain-clothes policeman and
another man were slashed with a knife in a suburban Melbourne shopping centre.

Police say a man approached a group of four other men, produced a knife following an
exchange and slashed one in the face at the Knox Ozone complex in Burwood Highway, Knox,
about 8.45pm (AEST) last night.

One man in the group suffered a slight cut from his right cheek to his ear.

Two plain-clothes officers, both constables from Knox, approached and identified themselves
as police.

The man ran, pursued by the constables.

They tried to subdue the man with capsicum spray in a car park.

One of the constables, 23, suffered a cut face from the knife and a broken finger in
the struggle.

A Croydon man, 19, suffered s stab wound to the stomach in the tussle.

He was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he remains under police guard.

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