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A man has been charged after allegedly punching a 73-year-old woman in the face, breaking her nose and stabbing her in the arm with a corkscrew before hitting a second woman with a bottle at a wedding reception in the Whitsunday Islands.
Police say the 36-year-old Victorian man was a guest at the reception at a north Queensland island resort off Airlie Beach, north of Mackay.
He allegedly attacked the elderly woman around 8.50pm (AEST) yesterday, before hitting the second woman in the head with a bottle.
His second alleged victim, 27, suffered a gash to her head and required stitches.
Police charged the man with unlawful wounding, assault occasioning bodily harm whilst armed and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.
He was due to appear in Proserpine Magistrates Court this afternoon.
- AAP
