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Man pleads guilty to attempted murder after stabbing in northeastern New Brunswick

A file photo of an RCMP patrol car, taken September 14, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Lee Brown

A 49-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in connection with a stabbing in Bas-Caraquet, N.B., earlier this year.

David Chiasson pleaded guilty to the charge in Caraquet Provincial Court on Wednesday.

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Chiasson was charged on April 11, a day after a 45-year-old woman was found inside a Rue Saint-Paul home with stab wounds.

The woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Her identity is concealed under a publication ban.

Chiasson will be sentenced on Oct. 3.

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