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21-Year-Old Langford Man In Critical Condition After Being Stabbed In Leg: Police

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jan, 2015 10:33 AM

LANGFORD, B.C. — Mounties in Langford, B.C., say a 21-year-old man is in critical condition after being stabbed in the leg.

RCMP in the southern Vancouver Island city say paramedics responded to the incident at about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Officers say the man was badly wounded and taken to hospital by ambulance.

Police have interviewed witnesses and say the man is believed to have gotten out of a late-1990s-model, dark blue SUV.

Mounties are now looking for a vehicle of that description and its driver.

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