A British tourist was stabbed while trying to break up a fight outside a supermarket in Thailand.

Charlie Faulkner was with his wife Kate walking to a 7-11 store when he saw several local men reportedly ganging up on a foreigner in Phuket in the early hours of last Friday morning.

He allegedly stepped in to intervene but was allegedly beaten and stabbed by the thugs, who plunged the knife into the left side of his abdomen.

CCTV captured the alleged attack, with his partner also being struck during the fracas on the city's notorious red light party strip of Bangla Road.

The Brit, from Portsmouth, staggered into the convenience store bleeding and was rushed to the Patong Hospital for treatment.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Chanan Mekchai of the Patong Police Station said the emergency services received a report at 4:40 am.

He said: 'According to security footage, at 4.32 am, a foreigner wearing a white shirt and shorts engaged in a fistfight with a group of Thai men on Soi Bangla.

'The altercation escalated, and they pushed each other into a small alley, Soi Lao, before taking the fight to the roadside, where they were seen by the British man.'

CCTV footage shows Charlie, seen in the video wearing a black shirt, black shorts, and white sneakers, standing at the entrance of the alley as the Thai natives and foreign man stumbled onto the street.

He walked toward the group apparently trying to mediate, but was injured when the rampaging thugs turned their fury on him.

A convenience store employee said that Charlie later entered the store and collapsed in front of the counter bleeding.

He was reportedly coughing up blood and unable to speak. After removing his t-shirt, they found a small puncture wound, believed to be from a sharpened metal object, on his left rib cage. He was also reported to have been struck on the head with a glass bottle.

Charlie's shaken girlfriend said: 'We had no idea who those men were. We have never met them before. We were just caught in the incident.'

Police Colonel Chalermchai Hernsawat, superintendent of the Patong Police Station, said police have identified the suspects and were tracking them down.

Patong Police said in a police report on May 19 that three of the Thai men - who were not named - had been arrested.

The incident is among the latest cases of violence on British tourists and expats in Thailand, raising concerns about the safety of visitors in the Southeast Asian country.

British mother-of-one Ayesha Jane Cox, 37, was knocked out with a single punch from security guard Mohammad Ayan, 27, whom she scolded for napping on the job in Bangkok in 2021.

An arrest warrant for the guard was issued just last September, and Ayesha and her family were calling on police to catch him. She said the attack had left her with a 'permanently damaged' face.

In February 22, British tourist Joseph Abadi-Johns, 23, was stabbed in a massive brawl in Phuket with Thai transgender sex workers, whom he and his friends had reportedly hired but refused to pay.

In August 2023, holidaymaker Ian Thomas, 60, and his son Gregory, 37, were attacked by bouncers who were kicking them out of the Matador Bar in Pattaya's Soi Buakhao red light street.

While in 2016, British couple Lewis and Rosemary Owen, 68 and 65, were visiting Hua Hin with their son John, 43, when they were brutally beaten by several drunk Thai men 'for spilling their beer'.

The vicious attack left the family unconscious, with Rosemary suffering brain swelling.

The couple, who were regular visitors to Thailand, had vowed never to return to Thailand following the assault. Their attackers were sentenced to four years in jail - commuted to two after they allegedly confessed.