A 42-year-old man in Mission has been fatally stabbed.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team say they were sent to the Greater Vancouver community after the unnamed Mission resident died in hospital early yesterday evening.
A 37-year-old suspect is in custody.
Police call the stabbing an isolated incident and say there is no risk to the public.
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Police say it happened just before 9:30 Tuesday night. Investigators say the victim and his attacker had some sort of altercation while on the bus, not far from the King George SkyTrain station.
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