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Dark clouds loom above the Caroline Bay Carnival ferris wheel on New Year’s Eve.
Inquiries into a stabbing at Caroline Bay in the early hours of New Year’s Day remain ongoing with police still calling for witnesses to the event.
On Tuesday, Sergeant Warwick Worth, of Timaru, confirmed an 18-year-old man was stabbed and taken to Timaru Hospital following the incident at 12.15am near the Caroline Bay Carnival ferris wheel.
The person was treated for a non-life threatening stab wound and discharged later that day.
Worth said this was not a random assault and assured there was no wider threat to the public.
On Wednesday, a police spokesperson said inquiries into the incident continued and police would still like to hear from anyone with information.
Worth also urged parents to keep an eye on their children after seeing an increase in the number of young people out late at night, involved in anti-social behaviour and often under the influence of alcohol.
He told The Timaru Herald, there was no threat to the wider public following the stabbing and two other incidents in the past two weeks.
On Christmas Eve, a 13-year-old was stabbed following an altercation near West End Park, and two days earlier, on December 22, a man and woman were taken to Timaru Hospital in a serious condition with gunshot wounds after an incident believed to have taken place in the car park of a motel in central Timaru.
As of Wednesday, police had no further updates on the two incidents.
Further information about the stabbing at Caroline Bay can be provided by phone by calling 105, or online at 105.police.govt.nz using Update Report and quoting file number 240101/1879.
Information can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Sergeant Warwick Worth, of Timaru. (File photo)
