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Suspect arrested following afternoon stabbing on Dartmouth street

A man has been taken to hospital with what police describe as life-threatening injuries following a stabbing Monday afternoon on a Dartmouth, N.S., street.

Halifax police say man taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries

Yellow police tape and a white and blue police vehicle are shown on a street.
Halifax police said a man was stabbed Monday on Portland Street in Dartmouth, N.S. (Richard Cuthbertson/CBC)

Halifax police say a suspect has been arrested following a stabbing Monday afternoon on a street in Dartmouth, N.S., that sent a man to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Halifax Regional Police said in a news release they were called to reports of an altercationbetween two people at 1:30 p.m. on Portland Street, near the intersection with Pleasant Street.

Officers arrived to find a man had been stabbed.

Karla Williams, who lives in a nearby apartment building, said she came out on her balcony and saw two people giving the victim chest compressions.

Police arrived soon after, she said, followed by an ambulance.

She noted the stabbing happened "in broad daylight, with a whole bunch of witnesses."

A small car stopped on Portland Streethad what appeared to be blood and an evidence marker on the hood.

Police shut down a block of Portland Street as they investigated.

With files from Richard Cuthbertson