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Police hunting two men who attacked an Auckland bottle store proprietor and his son say one of the assailants was injured in the incident.
The 55-year-old proprietor had to have a life-saving blood transfusion after the incident at the Three Kings Liquor Store on Mt Albert Rd about 9pm yesterday.
Police said the man's 21-year-old son confronted the pair, described as Polynesian, when they tried to leave the store without paying for alcohol.
The son received a serious and deep cut to his face while his father was cut about the face and arms, requiring a blood transfusion.
The offenders, believed to be in their late teens or early 20s, left empty-handed in a maroon Toyota Camry-type vehicle.
Detective Sergeant Geoff Baber, of Avondale police, said the offenders used broken bottles as weapons and one was cut on the neck in the fracas.
Mr Baber said that man would have a wound to his neck.
"While we don't know the extent of his injury, suffice to say someone who knows this young man would notice such a cut," he said.
He urged anyone with information about the wounded man or his companion, or any witnesses to the incident, to contact police.
- NZPA
