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A MALAYSIAN man who went on the run after a triple stabbing at a winery was
under police guard last night in hospital and awaiting questioning by detectives.
One man died and two were airlifted to hospital in Melbourne after a fight
broke out over work visas and rosters at the King Valley property in northeast
Victoria.
It is believed the Malaysian man was confronted by three other men about 6.50pm on
Saturday and struck with a large iron bar.
He allegedly stabbed one of the men in the chest and abdomen before stabbing the
other two.
The violence followed a dispute over working visas and roster changes between a
group of Asian workers who live in several houses near the Politini Winery and
work at other properties around the valley.
Politini winemaker Luis Simian was the first on scene after a Vietnamese worker
raised the alarm.
"An Asian man came upstairs and was quite frantic, asking for an ambulance," he
explained.
"So I called through Triple 0 and got down to the first house and they waved me
down to the second house where there was a man lying in the grass. He had stab
wounds to his heart, chest and lacerations to his arm.
"Someone had put a tourniquet on his arm and a T-shirt on his chest and he was
still moving and breathing.
"He wasn't talking though, and I put pressure on his chest and he was trying to
get up and no one else was helping. They just seemed to be coming and going.
"I could sense he had a lot of blood in his lungs. He died as I tried to help
him."
Mr Simian, 37, said he noticed a bloodstained iron bar near the body.
"I left him and moved out to the third house and there was someone else lying
on the lawn again," Mr Simian explained.
"He was quite coherent and had chest wounds and lacerations to his legs, but
he was quite conscious.
"I went into the third house and there was another man lying and he looked
quite bad."
The 58-year-old Malaysian man disappeared after the stabbings, sparking a
massive manhunt involving police and State Emergency Service volunteers in
bushland surrounding the winery.
He was found by an SES crew about 2pm yesterday and was treated for a head
injury at Wangaratta Hospital before being taken to the local police station.
"Once he is interviewed by the detectives, we should hopefully know more about
the circumstances of the incident," police spokesman Wayne Wilson said.
Mr Simian said he saw some workers flee the violence in a mini-van. He memorised
the number plates and told his wife, Biana, who called police.
Ten men in a Toyota Hiace van turned themselves in at Whitfield police station
yesterday morning and were driven to Melbourne to be questioned about the attack.
A young woman seen heading into bushland when the violence broke out was found
by the police dog squad yesterday morning.
The dead man, believed to be known as Michael, was aged in his 30s.
Another two men were recovering in the Alfred hospital last night.
One was in a stable condition while the other victim only had relatively minor
injuries.
Mr Simian said there had been no trouble at the property before Saturday.
"These people are really lovely people . . . but as far as I am aware it is
about the Asians who had visas versus the ones who didn't," he said.
"It was surreal."
It is believed there was bad blood between the dead man and other workers in
the King Valley area.
Police forensics yesterday placed markers more than 120m across the front of
the property, traversing a dirt driveway and the houses.
