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UPDATED Two Men Stabbed in Knife Fight at Bar

Police say their investigation is being stonewalled by a lack of cooperation.

Updated, 2 p.m. Monday: Police said they are having a hard time sorting out a knife fight at the Wooden Nickel Bar and Grill on Saturday night.

“People are just uncooperative," Watsonville police Sgt. Saul Gonzalez said Monday. "No one saw anything.”

One bar employee was stabbed, a second suffered a laceration and a patron was stabbed in the stomach during the fight. The two stabbing victims were flown to trauma centers and are expected to survive, police said.

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Detectives have not identified a motive for the attack and no arrests have been made.

Original Story, Sunday morning: Five people reportedly got into a knife fight and three were injured at a bar on Freedom Boulevard just after 10 p.m. Saturday night, Watsonville police reported.

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Officers were called to the , a bar and grill on the 1800 block of Freedom Boulevard, at 10:09 p.m. When officers arrived, an employee had been stabbed in the back and the assailants had fled in a vehicle. A second employee had received a large laceration to his right hand, according to the police reports.

At 10:14 p.m., an officer responding to the scene spotted the assailants' vehicle driving on Loma Prieta and Holly drives. Officers stopped the car at gunpoint and detained four men.

One had been stabbed in the abdomen and was bleeding. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital and then airlifted to a Bay Area trauma center for treatment for life threatening injuries, according to police reports.

"Both victims are still alive," said Sgt. Brian Ridgway of the Watsonville Police Department.

The investigation continues, and it is unknown at this time whether the fight was gang-related.

An employee who answered the phone at the Wooden Nickel on Sunday declined to comment on Saturday night's incident. The bar was slated to be open for business until 9 p.m. Sunday night.

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