men were taken to hospital with injuries.

One man ran into the nearby Pasta Basta restaurant shortly after 7 p.m.

yesterday, but he left a short time later. A King Edward VII Memorial Hospital ambulance later retrieved the man from a private home on Brae Road, between Elliott and Laffan Streets. A tip to the newsroom reported that six men brandishing machetes were seen chasing after a white van moments earlier near Cedar Avenue. Police said there were "several altercations'' reported last night.