Tourist cheats death after homeless man randomly stabs her in back of neck
A tourist was stabbed in the neck by a homeless stranger, in the second such attack in Spain in only 24 hours.
The female holidaymaker was knifed in the back of the neck in the horror attack as she strolled through the eastern city of Valencia with her boyfriend. Police revealed how the knifeman had jumped his victim from behind and left her covered in blood after plunging his bladed weapon into her soft tissue before fleeing the scene. The incident happened after another stabbing this week at Mallorca airport when a homeless Salvadoran knifed a man at Palma Airport in Majorca in another random attack.
The man suspected of the Valencia attack was arrested in the aftermath of the stabbing. Confirming he slept rough, local police who assisted the victim after she was hurt and later detained the alleged knifeman, said: 'At 10 o'clock on Wednesday, our control room received a call indicating that a woman was bleeding profusely from the neck and had apparently been assaulted by a passer-by in a street called Calle Conde Trenor.
'A neighbourhood police who was close to the scene went to the address indicated and assisted the victim, a 29 year old Italian, who had a cut on the back of her neck which was bleeding heavily. The wound was covered with a towel provided by a neighbour.
'Several locals were with the victim as well as her partner. The partner said a man had approached them from behind and had stabbed his girlfriend in the neck with a metal object before running away.
'He gave the officer a detailed description of the assailant. From the outset, the police officer suspected it could be someone well-known in the neighbourhood who usually spends the night in a sleeping bag in the old Turia riverbed and surrounding areas.
"On seeing the seriousness of the injury, the officer, together with a second back-up officer who had arrived, decided to put the victim in a patrol car and take her to hospital. The officer then returned to the area to try to locate the alleged assailant."
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