A 29-year-old man remains in hospital in critical condition after he was stabbed in Mississauga overnight.

Peel police said the stabbing happened shortly before 3 a.m. at a plaza on Goreway Drive, north of Derry Road.

The man was stabbed after he became involved in a verbal altercation, police said.

No suspect information was immediately available.

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