Man stabbed by gang of men on bikes in Saskatoon (2024)

A 36-year-old man was taken to hospital with a stab wound inflicted by a gang of men on bikes after police were called to the 200 block of Avenue K South on Friday.

In a news release, Saskatoon Police Service said officers were called to the area around 2:40 a.m. on June 7 after calls about an injured person and they found the man with “a non-life-threatening stab wound”.

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He was taken to hospital, and police said that their investigations found the man had been walking in the area of 20th Street West and Avenue K South when he was approached by the men on bikes and then stabbed. The suspects and victim are not believed to know each other, police said.

Members of the serious assault unit are continuing to investigate.

There have been a number of stabbings in the city in the past few weeks. On May 1, an 18-year-old man was stabbed on a Saskatoon Transit bus at the intersection of 12th Street East and Broadway Avenue, and a woman was stabbed multiple times in the 300 block of 23rd Street East in the mid-afternoon on May 3.

A 20-year-old man was stabbed after an argument with someone he knew in the 1400 block of Idylwyld Drive and on May 15, and on May 16 a woman was stabbed after a random encounter in a park along 18th Street West. She had been walking through the park with another person in the early hours of the morning when they were approached by a group of people. When the woman tried to run, she fell and was stabbed multiple times, police said.

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