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1 person critically injured in midtown Toronto stabbing

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Toronto police are investigating after a stabbing at Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue West sent one person to hospital with life-threatening injuries on Friday.

One person has been critically injured in a stabbing in midtown Toronto.

Emergency crews were called to the area of Yonge Street and Berwick Avenue, south of Eglinton Avenue, shortly after 6:30 p.m. for a stabbing.

When officers arrived, they located a male victim who had been stabbed, police said

Toronto paramedics told CP24 that they transported the victim to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Police later said that they arrested a male suspect and then transported him to the hospital with injuries.

There is no immediate word on the severity of his injuries.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.