R-C-M-P in Langley are investigating a stabbing that sent a 26-year-old man to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Mounties say officers responded to a stabbing report in the 203-hundred block of Douglas Crescent just after 8:15 a-m this morning.
Officers found the victim inside a local business and believe the incident was targeted and isolated.
Mounties say there is no ongoing risk to public safety, and police are looking for witnesses to come forward
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