A heat­ed ar­gu­ment be­tween two men in Va­len­cia es­ca­lat­ed in­to a cut­lass at­tack on Fri­day af­ter­noon, leav­ing one man with se­ri­ous in­juries and an­oth­er in po­lice cus­tody.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 3:30 p.m. at a house in La Pla­ta Gar­dens, Va­len­cia, where the vic­tim and sev­er­al oth­er peo­ple were gath­ered.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said a ver­bal dis­pute be­tween the two men es­ca­lat­ed in­to a phys­i­cal con­fronta­tion be­fore they were sep­a­rat­ed by those present.