Police responded to three stabbings and hatchet attack during busy weekend

Police in Saskatoon were kept busy over the weekend as officers responded to three separate stabbings and an attack with a hatchet.

Just after 8 p.m. on Friday, police got a report of an injured woman on Fourth Avenue North in the city’s downtown core.

“The 18 year old female victim was suffering from an injury that was reportedly caused by a hatchet,” police said in a statement.

“It was also reported that the woman and a friend were walking in the area when they were approached by two other women who assaulted them.”

Police said the victim who was allegedly struck by the hatchet was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Teen girl beaten, stabbed on Queen Street

On Saturday, at around 9 p.m., officers were called to an assault in progress on Queen Street near City Hospital. There, they spoke with a 16-year-old girl who said she was approached by two female suspects who beat and stabbed her.

She was taken to hospital for treatment, but police said her injuries were not believed to be life threatening.

Police said the Canine Unit led officers to first the victim’s discarded bag and then later to a nearby home where one of the alleged attackers was arrested. The second suspect has not yet been located.

The attack isn’t believed to be random, police noted.

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Sixty-year-old man stabbed downtown

At around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, officers were called to the 200 block of Second Avenue South for another reported stabbing.

Police said the victim, a 60-year-old man, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Officers reviewed security footage in the area, and said the suspect appeared to be a man in his 30s, standing five-foot-10 with a mohawk-style haircut and a goatee. He was wearing a black hoodie with a graffiti print on it, police added.

Few details after man stabbed on Avenue P

The fourth case police noted began at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, when police got a call reporting yet another injured person.

The 36-year-old man was found outside a home in the 500 block of Avenue P North, and was taken to hospital for treatment of an injury that police didn’t think was life threatening.

“No further information is available in regard to this incident,” police said.

Police said all of the alleged attacks are under investigation by its serious assault unit.