Downtown Eastside stabbing leaves man in serious condition

Vancouver police say a man was taken to hospital in serious condition after being stabbed in the city’s Downtown Eastside on Thursday.

The incident happened near Hastings and Columbia streets around 2:40 p.m.

Witness Casandra Torres was working on a job site nearby when she saw two men fighting.

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“One of them, he had an ice pick, and he was poking him several times,” she said.

“I was completely in shock.”

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She said the attacker fled the scene with another woman.

Police said one person was detained nearby, but it was too soon to say if they were a suspect.

The stabbing came one day after a 32-year-old chef and Japanese national was fatally stabbed nearby on the edge of Chinatown while heading home from work.

Police have yet to identify a suspect or a motive in his killing.