DUBAI// Three men have appeared in court charged with attempted murder and assault after getting into a knife fight with each other.
The Dubai Criminal Court was told on June 22 this year N M, 29, M A, 35, and S A, 36, all from Bangladesh started a fight in which N M and M A stabbed each other with the same knife while S A assaulted N M by punching him on the head and face.
Prosecutors charged N M with attempted murder and physical assault while M A and S A were both charged with physical assault.
The defendants were not present in court to enter a plea.
Records show that S A and M A were standing at the door of a restaurant in Naif where they all work talking about N M.
“I was complaining to M A about N M when he arrived and started asking why I was talking bad about him. N M then went to the kitchen and returned holding a knife. When M A tried to calm him down and grabbed the knife from his hand, he pulled it away injuring M A’s hand in the process,” said S A in records.
N M then chased S A and stabbed him in the neck and abdomen while M A managed to take the knife from him and stab N M in the back, before he fainted after seeing blood.
N M then chased S A to a nearby building where S A punched him in the face and head before people standing nearby tried to stop the fight.
Police were called and an ambulance arrived to take the three injured men to hospital.
“I heard them fighting about the cleanliness of the restaurant then I left to perform Al Fajr prayers. When I returned I knew what had happened,” testified Indian cook M R, 48.
The next hearing will be on November 18.
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