Man stabbed, lung punctured, during fight with students in Point Fortin

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Man stabbed, lung punctured, during fight with students in Point Fortin

A 20-year-old man is warded with stab wounds, following a fight with a group of male students outside a Church’s Chicken outlet in Point Fortin.

Around 3.30 pm, a fight broke out between the man and a group of students from the Point Fortin East Secondary School, near Church’s Texas Chicken Ltd at Main Road.

The police said the man attacked a male student, and other students went to rescue him. A security guard from Amalgamated Security Ltd also intervened.

During the brawl, the man was stabbed twice, in his stomach and back.

He suffered a punctured lung and was taken to the Point Fortin Hospital and was transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital.

The security guard and a schoolboy had minor bruises.

The police interviewed several people, but no one was arrested.

The police hope to use CCTV footage to solve the case.