Police are questioning a man in connection with the stabbing of a pensioner in Aberdeen city centre.
This follows the multiple stabbing of a 79-year-old man near Gallowgate.
Ambulance crews were called to the Aberdeen sheltered housing complex and took the injured man to hospital, where he remains.
A team of Grampian Police officers were today carrying out inquiries at Loch Court, a sheltered housing complex near the city’s George Street.
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A spokesman said: “Officers were called to an assault at Loch Street, Aberdeen.
“An ambulance attended and took the 79-year-old male victim to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he remained today in the care of medical staff in a stable condition.
Neighbour Andrew Smith noticed a commotion across from his house.
He said: “Me and my girlfriend saw a couple of police vans outside Loch Court and wondered what it was about. I’ve always wondered why they’d put an old folks home near a college – weird.”
The alarm was raised at 6.50pm last night at the complex, at the back of Aberdeen College’s Gallowgate campus.
It was understood the pensioner, bleeding heavily, went to a neighbour’s flat with serious injuries and the neighbour called an ambulance.
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman today said: “We took a 79-year-old man with multiple stab wounds to the abdomen to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He was conscious and breathing when the crews arrived.”
Staff at the complex were today unable to comment on the incident and referred calls to the city council.
No one from the local authority was available to comment.
The Police investigation continues.
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