WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The victim was seen crawling across a stone floor with the hilt of a large knife protruding from between his shoulder-blades
A man was filmed crawling into a shop with a knife lodged in his back after being stabbed in horrific brawl at a holiday hotspot popular with Brits.
Images from the scene in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, show a man wearing a grey hoodie and denim shorts lying on the bar’s polished stone floor.
The victim, a 64-year-old Polish national, is believed to have known his attacker. Police in the Canary Islands hotspot believe that some sort of altercation broke out between the two men as they met en route to the meal centre for something to eat.
The emergency services were called, and responding paramedics gave the man first aid at the scene. The shocking incident took place at about 10am on Sunday, March 30, according to local news site NeedToKnow.
After being treated at the scene, the victim was then taken to a local hospital in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria where he underwent emergency surgery.
Meanwhile the attacker reportedly fled the scene before the emergency services arrived, but a 44-year-old man turned himself in at a local police station some two hours later and confessed to the crime.
The stabbing was the third in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in March alone. Also in the city last month, there was a savage brawl between two men, with at least one of them reportedly armed with machete.
Citing a number of major incidents in recent weeks, local police have warned of a general “rise in insecurity” in the Canary Island, which attracts over 6million Brits every year.
One of the dramatic events listed by police was the attempted armed robbery of an armoured bank truck in Las Palmas on March 16, which resulted in a running gunfight between officers and six suspects.
The armed robbers were later cornered inside a property in the La Paterna neighbourhood and arrested.
Around 800 kilograms of hashish being shipped into Gran Canaria from Morocco was intercepted by police in Lanzarote last week, as the culmination of a months-long investigation.
The National Police, working with with the Tax Surveillance Unit of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, have also announced that at the beginning of last month they had thwarted a gang of fraudsters accused of defrauding more than €8.39 million, affecting over 3,000 holidaymakers in the south of Tenerife.