A 30-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries Saturday after he was struck in the head with the blunt end of an axe in Nanaimo, B.C.
Mounties say the incident occurred just after 5 p.m. when the victim got into an argument with another man in the parking lot of the Port Place shopping centre in the city's downtown core.
Police and canine officers flooded the area after the altercation but were unable to locate the perpetrator, police said in a release Monday.
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