A woman has been arrested following an alleged stabbing attack at Salamander Bay which left multiple people with minor injuries.
Police say the 26-year-old was armed with a knife as she walked along Soldier's Point Road with her 5-year-old daughter at about 5:40 on Tuesday evening.
The woman then climbed into the backseat of an occupied car stopped near the intersection of Scott Circuit.
It's alleged the woman then stabbed a man inside the car with a knife covered by a protective sheath, causing minor lacerations to his shoulder.
The man's 15-year-old daughter was also in the car but escaped unharmed.
Following this, the alleged stabber got out of the car and continued walking with her child towards the shopping precinct where they entered a supermarket.
Some staff and customers ran outside, locked the doors and called the police.
While locked inside the supermarket, it's alleged the woman continued to attack customers with the still sheath-covered knife, causing minor injuries to a number of people before turning on her young daughter.
Police arrested the woman without incident and escorted her to Mater Hospital for treatment for lacerations to her fingers and head.
She will undergo a mental health assessment.
Her daughter has been taken to the John Hunter Hospital with lacerations to her scalp, which police say are non-life-threatening.
Three men were treated for superficial injuries at a local clinic.
Investigations into the incident are continuing.
