Vic: Man critical after stabbing

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2009
Vic: Man critical after stabbing

MELBOURNE, Dec 20 AAP - A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed
in the back during an argument in Melbourne's northwest.

Police are investigating the attack at a house in Leonard Avenue, St Albans, shortly
before midnight (AEDT) on Saturday.

The 24-year-old man suffered a single stab wound as he and another man argued, police said.

The offender hurled the knife into a neighbouring property and fled, police believe.

The knife, a silver fick knife about 15cm long and with holes in the handle, has not been found.

The attacker fled along Leonard Avenue and west along Biggs Street.

The injured man was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition.

Police believe they know the identity of the attacker.

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KEYWORD: KNIFE

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