Police are looking for two male teenagers in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to reports of an assault on the Gwydir Highway at Waterview about 1am Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police found a 35-year-old man had been stabbed by unknown persons while walking along the street.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old-man was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police arrested a 17-year-old male in relation to the stabbing, who is assisting authorities with their investigations.<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector Guy Flaherty said police were looking for two male teenagers in hoodies and trackpants who left the area on a motorbike or a quad bike.<\/p>\n
He called for anyone with dash cam and home CCTV footage around the area to come forward to assist officers with their inquiries.<\/p>\n
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Detective Chief Inspector Guy Flaherty says police believe the victim knew his attackers. (ABC Coffs Coast: Toby Hemmings)<\/p>\n
“We’re appealing for members of the public who may have seen or heard people fighting in the area around the Gwydir Highway [near] Hay Street, South Grafton,” Detective Chief Inspector Flaherty said.<\/p>\n
“We’re also interested in an altercation that took place earlier around an hour prior in the Bent Street, South Grafton area.”<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector Flaherty said officers believed the 35-year-old and the unknown persons were known to each other.<\/p>\n
“This was not a random attack,” he said.<\/p>\n
Local resident Craig Barry said he woke to flashing lights.<\/p>\n
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Sarah Wright and Craig Barry say the incident is a shock on the normally quiet street. (ABC News: Hannah Ross)<\/p>\n
“I heard the helicopter come in around 1, 2 o’clock this morning. I didn’t know what happened,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police are urging motorists to avoid the area. (ABC News: Hannah Ross)<\/p>\n
Drivers are being advised to avoid the area, which is expected to remain a crime scene for a considerable amount of time.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact Grafton police or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for two male teenagers in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48,53892,100610,44,1158,27777],"class_list":["post-149543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crime","tag-grafton","tag-gwydir-highway","tag-news","tag-police","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}