{"id":644373,"date":"2026-05-02T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:41:09","slug":"man-airlifted-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-reports-of-caravan-park-brawl-involving-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644373\/","title":{"rendered":"Man airlifted with life-threatening injuries after reports of caravan park brawl involving knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed during a wild brawl at a caravan park in a small Victorian town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers attended the park in the town of Merrigum, about 25 kilometres from Shepparton, after receiving several reports about a brawl involving knives, about 3:45am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;When police arrived, they found several people who were believed to be alcohol-affected walking throughout the park and a critically injured man inside one of the cabins,&#8221; a Victoria Police statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The injured man, a 30-year-old from the local area, was treated by paramedics before being flown to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two men were arrested nearby, with police also seizing a knife from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Shepparton Crime Investigation Unit detectives will interview the men, who were a 28-year-old from Cootamundra, New South Wales, and a 51-year-old from Merrigum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the brawl or has information should contact Crime Stoppers via crimestoppersvic.com.au or on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed during a wild brawl at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46894,22809,78246,43,4082,204190,44,27777,41,39,42,40,2024],"class_list":["post-644373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-brawl","tag-caravan-park","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-knives","tag-news","tag-stabbing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644373","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=644373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}