Technician On 2nd Bond Film Is Knifed!!

By JAMES TAPPER - More by this author » Last updated at 01:00am on 4th May 2008

STORY: The curse of 007 has struck again after a technician working on the latest Bond movie was stabbed with a steak knife in a domestic dispute.

The 58-year-old man, who was working on Daniel Craig's second Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood yesterday morning after a night out.

Police said he had been attacked by a woman in the bedroom of her house in Dornbirn, Austria.

He is believed to have wrestled the knife from her and staggered into the street.

He is now said to be recovering in hospital, according to Bond sources.

It is the third major mishap to befall the movie, prompting fears it may be jinxed.

Engineer Fraser Dunn, 29, was lucky to survive after crashing a £134,000 Aston Martin DBS into Lake Garda in Italy two weeks ago.

Six days later, stuntman Aris Comninos, 40, suffered serious head injuries after crashing while filming a chase scene.

In the latest incident Austrian police said the unnamed British technician had met a 47-year-old Austrian woman in a bar in the town of Dornbirn, near where filming is taking place. He was invited back to her home when she attacked him.

He was discovered at 6am yesterday and police gave him emergency first aid.

His condition was "critical".

A police spokesman said: "The woman appears to have attacked the man with a steak knife in the bedroom.

"At some stage he had wrestled the knife free from the woman and used it to drive her off before staggering out the door and collapsing in the street.

"He suffered deep cut wounds to the head and hands, and the first policeman to arrive thought he had died as his pulse was so weak and there was so much blood.

"The woman was found first."

A movie spokeswoman said: "I can confirm a technician was injured in a domestic dispute."