A bloody incident with three people injured occurred at midnight Friday at a well-known beach bar in Hanioti, in Halkidiki.

According to thestival.gr, one man was wounded in the chest, another was injured by a knife, while another suffered injuries from a beating. All three are Bulgarian nationals.

The injured were taken by ambulance to the Kassandria Health Centre and then it was deemed necessary to transfer them to the Polygyros Hospital. The state of health of the man who was shot is considered by the doctors to be particularly serious.

At the time of the gunfight in the beach bar, a live music night with the artist Manos Kagias was in progress. The event caused panic among customers and staff. “There was crying, screaming and shouting. People started running for their lives. They were all leaving the shop. Knives went off and shots were heard. Young children were running with their parents. There was panic,” a woman who was present at the incident told thestival.gr.

Police are collecting statements from eyewitnesses to determine the circumstances under which the incident took place. According to the local media, it is considered likely that people belonging to the Bulgarian mafia were involved.

What a volunteer rescuer describes:

“Around the midnight I was alerted to a serious shooting incident with several people involved in a seaside shop in our area… In exactly two minutes I arrived at the scene as a first responder with all the equipment and directly focused on the unfortunate man who had received a bullet in the sternum… After contacting the ambulance I asked for specific instructions to handle the incident because it was the first time I was called to deal with a bullet wound… At the same time I called for two ambulances since there were two other injured and especially one of the multiple blows to the head combined with the pepper spray his vital signs were pressure 200 to 135 and 165 pulse…,” the rescuer described, according to the Cassandra Newspaper.

It goes on to state: “The 2 ambulances picked up all three injured for further and transfer to the Kassandra Health Centre and Polygyros Hospital…

Information about a fatality up to this moment of writing this post does not exist and I tell you 100% and anything else is false.”