French tourist stabbed while trying to break up fight in Brisbane's party precinct
The French national was with friends outside a bottle shop near the corner of Wickham and Brunswick streets in Fortitude Valley shortly after 3am on Friday when they saw a fight break out.
He stepped in to intervene but was stabbed.
Harrowing photos show the injured Good Samaritan lying on the ground, being comforted by a friend while being treated by paramedics.
He was rushed to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a potentially life-threatening condition.
'Two people were fighting, and he was right in the middle and he got stabbed, I think, three times and he started bleeding a lot,' his friend Hugo told Seven News.
'And then we called the ambulance and the police and they arrived pretty fast.'
Two people were arrested.
'Investigations into the circumstances of the incident are ongoing,' Queensland Police said.
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