VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say five people were stabbed in less than an hour early Sunday as Halloween partiers flooded the city’s entertainment zones. Steve Addison says all five victims went to hospital and the attacks occurred in two separate and unrelated incidents. Less than an hour later, they say officers patrolling downtown intervened in a large fight between two groups on Granville Street that left two men in their 20s with stab wounds to the face, hands and torso. Police say the attackers in the first case fled and they have not identified any suspects in the second. “The weekend before Halloween is always one of the busiest for our officers, and these major incidents stretched our resources thin during a critical time,” Addison said in a statement.

Source: thestar October 31, 2022 00:48 UTC