A man was rushed to hospital and a woman arrested after a reported stabbing on Bromley Road in Downham yesterday evening (September 19).
The victim of the stabbing — a 27-year-old man — was rushed to hospital where he remains in a stable condition at present.
Police are now investigating what happened and said they had arrested a woman (no further details given) in connection to the stabbing, which took place on the Lewisham street sometime before 6.47pm on Saturday evening, when police were called.
Responding to a request from News Shopper, a spokesperson for the Met Police said:
"Police were called at 18:47hrs on Saturday, 19 September to Bromley Road in Downham following reports of a man stabbed.
"Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended.
"A 27-year-old man was taken to a south London hospital where he remains in a stable condition; his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
"A woman [no further details] was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm."
The Met added that the woman is now being held at a South London police station, and that officers believe her and the victim are known to each other.
A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service, who treated the victim at the scene, said:
“We were called at 6:47pm yesterday (19 September) to reports of a stabbing on Bromley Road, Downham.
“We dispatched an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, a medic in a car and an advance paramedic practitioner. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance by road.
“We treated a patient on scene and took them to hospital.”
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