SYDNEY, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A French tourist has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed while trying to break up a fight in the Australian city of Brisbane.
Emergency services said that the man was found by ambulance paramedics with significant stab wounds to his chest in Fortitude Valley, a popular nightlife area in central Brisbane, shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Friday.
He was treated at the scene before being taken to the hospital in a life-threatening condition.
Local media identified the victim as a French tourist.
A witness and friend of the victim told Seven Network television that he had intervened to stop a fight between two other people when he was attacked.
"Two people were fighting, and he was right in the middle and he got stabbed, I think, three times and he started bleeding," he said.
Police attended the scene and arrested two people, with an investigation into the incident is ongoing. ■
