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<\/p>\nA teenage boy has undergone surgery after he was allegedly stabbed at Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to a home on Painters Lane about 9:45pm, with paramedics treating the 15-year-old for an alleged stab wound, before he was taken to Gosford Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
Officers with Brisbane Water Police District set up a crime scene, with investigations focusing on two groups of teenagers that were reportedly in the area at the time.<\/p>\n
“Those two groups met up in the Terrigal area; they appear to have gone to Painters Lane,” Brisbane Water Police District, Detective Chief Inspector John Zdrilic said.<\/p>\n
“The reason is unclear as to why they did that, and an incident has occurred which has resulted in the [alleged] stabbing of the 15-year-old male.<\/p>\n
“The 15-year-old who was [allegedly] stabbed was there with two mates, and they met up with another group that could have numbered up to five.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector Zdrilic said it is believed at this stage that there was no confrontation between the two groups in Painters Lane.<\/p>\n
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Brisbane Water Police District, Detective Chief Inspector John Zdrilic.\u00a0 (ABC News: Abubakr Sajid)<\/p>\n
“[Police are investigating] one, the reason as to why they’ve gone into Painters Lane and, two, whether there’s a previous relationship between these two groups,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The boy approached a home at Painters Lane to seek help, with residents calling 000.<\/p>\n
“It appeared to be a single stab wound to the left side, heavy bleeding. [An] ambulance attended fairly quickly and he was conveyed to Gosford [Hospital].”<\/p>\n
Knife warning<\/p>\n
Brisbane Water Police District has established a strike force to investigate what led to the alleged stabbing.<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector Zdrilic said a weapon has not been found, and investigators are yet to identify a person of interest.<\/p>\n
“We’re interested in speaking with members of that second group, to assist us with our inquiries,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Youths walking around the place with knives is not on. We constantly have operations to take knives off the streets.<\/p>\n
“One knife out there is one too many, and if you are found in a public place without a lawful reason for a knife, we will take action.”<\/p>\n
NSW Police has asked anyone with information, CCTV footage or dash-cam footage from the area to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has undergone surgery after he was allegedly stabbed at Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1112,22,21,117391,69070,117390,12207,2021,117291,1329,2036,117289],"class_list":["post-77818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-attack","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-brisbane-water-police-district","tag-gosford-hospital","tag-john-zdrilic","tag-knife","tag-nsw-police","tag-painters-lane","tag-stabbing","tag-teenager","tag-terrigal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}