Police raced to a busy pub in Glasgow after a late-night stabbing horror.
The incident happened around closing time outside the James Tassie bar on Kilmarnock Road in Shawlands in the early hours on Sunday morning.
One eyewitness said a group of pals were standing outside the popular bar when trouble flared as several other young men walked past.
He said: "Someone made eye contact and the usual 'Who are you looking at?' nonsense started.
"The next thing someone pulled a knife and there was chaos. Someone got stabbed and I think someone else got slashed.
"Another lad ended up with a broken ankle."
Emergency services rushed to the scene with two police vans, six police cars and four ambulances in attendance.
One man was unconscious in the back of a police vehicle after being knocked out. However, officers were still trying to establish if he was a suspect or a victim.
Another man with an injured ankle was seen sitting on a chair at the entrance to the pub. He later hobbled away for treatment with the help of a police officer.
Police then taped off a large section of Kilmarnock Road with a blood trail visible on the pavement between the James Tassie bar and nearby Walton Street.
Ambulance staff were also seen treating a stabbing victim on the side street. He was later taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital while police officers took statements from his distraught friends.
One of the knife victim's pals was in tears as his friend was put in the ambulance. As he was being consoled by his other pals he sobbed: "I have already lost one of my best mates and I don't want to lose another."
Police at the scene would not reveal any details about the incident.
In November, the Record told how a teenager needed hospital treatment after as he stood outside the nearby Sir John Maxwell pub.
The attack took place just a few hundred yards from the scene where tragic Owen Hassan was fatally assaulted outside his mum's pub - the Old Stag Inn –on November 7.
