Man hospitalized after being stabbed in Melbourne

SYDNEY: A man has been hospitalized after being stabbed on a busy street in inner suburbs of Australia’s Melbourne on Wednesday.

Police in the state of Victoria said the man in his 30s was stabbed near a busy intersection on a major road in Prahran, about 4 km southeast of central Melbourne, shortly before 8 a.m. local time, Australia’s 9News network reported.

He was taken to a nearby hospital in a serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries to his lower body.

Authorities have commenced a search of the local area for an unknown male attacker.

-Xinhua