photo credit: Saskatoon Police Service

The Saskatoon Police Service says one man has been arrested fter two stabbings Saturday afternoon.

Police responded to St. Paul’s Hospital around 2 p.m. where a 25-year-old man was receiving care for non-life-threatening injuries. Police say they believe the man was stabbed in the area of 20th Street and Avenue Q after being approached by a group of people who asked for cigarettes and after being denied, the victim was reportedly stabbed.

Just over an hour later officers were dispatched to an injured person call in the 800 block of Avenue D North and found a 61-year-old man with non-life-threatening injuries consistent with a stabbing.

He was taken to hospital for further care and officers located a man about a block away who matched the suspect description they had been given and arrested him without incident. A search of his person they say turned up a knife. And the Saskatoon Police Service says the man matched the description in the first stabbing.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault as well as, possession of a weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, and obstruction.