Vic: Brothers stabbed in suspected road rage attack
27 Dec 2008 12:23 PM
MELBOURNE, Dec 27 AAP - Police are appealing for witnesses to a suspected road rage attack in which two brothers were stabbed in Melbourne's south.
Detective Senior Constable Mark Fitt said the stabbing occurred after a dispute between the occupants of two cars on the Princes Highway, near Dandenong, about 4am on Saturday.
Det Sen Const Fitt, of the Dandenong CIU, said one of the cars rammed the other after they had turned off the highway into David Street, Dandenong.
Three men emerged from each car and began fighting, he said.
Two men received multiple stab wounds to the head and chest from a tomahawk-like weapon, Det Sen Const Fitt said.
He said a 26-year-old Doveton man was in a serious but stable condition at the Alfred Hospital. His 18-year-old brother was in a stable condition at the Dandenong Hospital.
He said police were investigating whether the brawl was a road rage incident and if the men knew each other.
"There is some sort of indication that they are known, what the association is we don't know at this stage. We are making some inquiries," he said.
He called for witnesses or anyone who knows anything about the incident to contact police.
