Two Men Injured After Separate Overnight Stabbings in Montreal

Published on March 10, 2024

Montreal police say two men sustained non-life-threatening injuries after separate stabbings just past 1 a.m. on Mar 9 morning. Police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier says a 20-year-old man was struck several times with a knife on an arm and hand after an apparent cellphone theft outside the city’s Langelier metro station roughly eight kilometres east of downtown. Police arrested two 19-year-old men in connection with the stabbing, and Ms. Gauthier says investigators are reviewing nearby surveillance camera footage. The second incident involved a 29-year-old man who the police spokesperson says was stabbed in his lower body after exiting a building downtown. Ms. Gauthier says the man exhibited heavy bleeding when first responders found him and brought him to a local hospital, but medical authorities later confirmed his life is not in danger....

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