2 Aug 2015

Tourists discharged from hospital after attack

6:01 pm on 2 August 2015

Two tourists attacked in Christchurch early yesterday morning have been discharged from hospital.

Police said the two men in their twenties, one British, the other French, were attacked by about eight people outside their backpacker accommodation in Worcester Street in the central city.

One of the tourists suffered a broken jaw and the other serious eye injuries.

Police are still looking for the assailants.