3 hospitalised after knife attack on crowded party boat in New York City
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New York, April 21
A knife attack on a crowded party boat at a New York City pier Saturday resulted in the hospitalisation of three people, police said.
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A 911 call came in around 5 p.m. reporting the assault along the East River near 58th Street and the Brooklyn Army Terminal warehouse, Detective Sophia Mason said.
The victims were said to be a 32-year-old man with a stab wound to the torso, a 40-year-old man with stab wounds to the chest and abdomen and a 28-year-old man who was hit in the head with a bottle.
They were taken to the NYU Langone Hospital and were in stable condition, Mason said. There were no arrests as of Saturday evening, and the investigation was ongoing.
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Around 3,000 people were aboard the vessel, the Cornucopia Majesty, at the time, according to police.
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