Knife attack in Tarnów: 17-year-old injured in the city center

On Friday night, a dangerous knife incidental occurred in downtown Tarnowa. Seventeen-year-old boy was injured in the abdomen by an unknown perpetrator during a brawl on Cathedral Street. The assailant fled the scene, and the police are conducting an intensive search.

The event took place around 10 p.m. on the Cathedral Street in the centre of Tarnowa. According to police findings, a group of respective people headed to the marketplace got into an argument with a man going in the other direction.

During the riot, an unknown perpetrator at the age of 25-30 reached a knife or another sharp instrument. For an unknown reason, he attacked 1 of the group members.

A teenager in a hospital

Seventeen-year-old was transported to a infirmary with a cut in the abdomen. As the press officer of the Municipal Police office in Tarnów, the younger aspirant Kamil Wójcik, reported, the injuries do not endanger the life of the victim.

Police immediately began searching for the attacker who fled the scene. Officers interviewed witnesses of the incidental who helped establish a description of the perpetrator.

Searched description

According to witnesses, the man wanted is about six feet tall and short dark hair. At the time of the incidental he was dressed in a black shirt with a long sleeve, dark trousers and white sports shoes.

Police call on anyone who may have information about the perpetrator or have witnessed the incidental to contact the officers. Further steps are underway to find the circumstances and motives of the attack.

(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.