Youth suffers serious injuries after alleged group assault in Halifax
A Halifax Regional Police car is pictured in an undated file image. (Paul DeWitt/CTV Atlantic)
A group of youths allegedly assaulted a single youth between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from Halifax Regional Police.
Police say the assault occurred in “a wooded area near the 200 block of Thomas Raddall Drive.”
A different group of youths discovered the injured youth and brought them to a nearby school.
The victim suffered serious, but non-life threatening, injuries and was taken to hospital, police say.
Police ask anyone with information or video from the area to call them at 902-490-5020.
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