SYDNEY: A man has been hospitalised in a critical condition and a teenager has been arrested following the stabbing attack at a public park in Sydney.
Emergency services were called to reports of an assault at the park in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Annandale at about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Police officers arrived and found six men with a range of injuries, who said they had been assaulted by a group of four unknown males following an argument.
One of the victims, a 21-year-old man, suffered stab wounds and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Four more of the injured men were also taken to hospital, while one was treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics but did not require hospitalisation.
Police established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the incident. Following inquiries, a 15-year-old boy was arrested in Annandale at around 12:15 a.m. and taken to a nearby police station.
In a similar incident, earlier on August 5, a teenage girl was arrested after another teenager was fatally stabbed in Sydney.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said that emergency services were called to reports of a stabbing in Edgeworth, a suburb of the city of Newcastle, 110 km north of Sydney on August 4..