A man has been taken to hospital after he was attacked and left with a facial injury in Hebburn town centre.
Officers from Northumbria Police have launched an investigation after they first received a report of an assault on St John’s Precinct in Hebburn, shortly before 9.20am on Friday. Emergency crews found that a man had been assaulted by another man at the scene.
It is believed that the suspect ran off before police arrived. A man, aged 49, was taken to hospital with a non-life threatening facial injury.